Detective

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police, crime television drama series that takes place in New York City. The main characters are Detective Stabler (male) and Detective Benson (female). From the beginning of the series, the two detectives act like their stereotypical gender roles. Stabler has a masculine presentation just like Benson has a feminine presentation. In this visual text, the gender roles of all the characters are very prominent. The males perform the way society…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the pioneers of the English detective fiction and he created a new trend in detective fiction through his Sherlock Holmes stories. He is the inspirational force behind many modern sleuths, who still show the traces of Sherlock Holmes, the first scientific detective of the world. Many writers of the later centuries were greatly influenced by Doyle. Isaac Asimov, the popular American mastermind, is one of those writers, who were attracted by Doyle. Though he once…

A detective – the one who solves the mystery of a crime, clever, wise, and knowledgeable. Yet detectives are not always the obvious type, as is exemplified by a both a novel and a series of short stories. In G. K. Chesterton’s Favorite Father Brown Stories, the wise detective is not a usual detective. As implied by his name, Father Brown was an English village priest in the 19th or 20th century, who ended up being the one to solve or lead another to solving a crime or finding the criminal.…

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is a series that defies the laws of traditional television productions; it is tragic and comedic, suspenseful and light-hearted, heart breaking and beautiful. In this BBC production, Dirk Gently, a holistic detective that believes everything is a clue; Todd Brotzman, a skeptical sidekick to the detective and Farah Black, an experienced bodyguard who cannot seem to leave the detective’s side, strive to solve the mystery of the penthouse massacre and the…

Falcon by John Huston are iconic in the detective genre for reinventing what it really means to be a detective in the world of literature. Their main characters are a far cry from the Sherlock Holmes and the Philo Vance type of private eye who never make any mistakes and always get the better of the villain. Instead, their detectives are gritty, hardened, and deeply flawed. However, one detective is more honourable and moral than the other. Chandler’s detective, Philip Marlowe, has been…

should do regarding information received, how the interviewer is to determine if the suspect is guilty, how to ask questions that will produce necessary information, and Following the author will breakdown the interview by the suspect as well as Detective Orr to properly understand the meaning behind the questions, answers, and mannerisms. Succeeding this will be a discussion on criminal typography relating to pedophiles. An Interview Interviews for investigative purposes…

Deuteronomy 32:35, the Bible says, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon him.” (“BibleGateway”). The novel Murder on the Orient Express follows the journey of Detective Hercule Poirot as he attempts to solve the murder of Mr. Samuel Ratchett while on the Orient Express. He eventually does conclude that all the passengers except for one had an involvement in the murder. A consistent theme throughout the…

Chasing the Devil’s Tail is the first book in Storyville series by David Fulmer. The series follows the adventure of Valentin St. Cyr, private detective, in New Orleans. In the first book, Valentin must solve the black rose murder that’s going around the red light district in New Orleans. Several sporting girls found dead with a black rose found near their bodies. Since it’s happening in the Storyville, the nickname of the red light district, Tom Anderson the King of Storyville employs Valentin…

style and idea have significant affections to today’s detective stories. Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago, Illinois. Although he wanted to be a good writer, his mother and grandmother insisted him to be a civil servant. After having an oil business for many years, he was fired because of drunkenness and absence. In order to make a living, he began to write some novels by imitating his favorite writer’s styles. In 1933, his first detective story was contributed to “Black Mask”. From 1933 to…

Janie Bolitho was an American author made famous for her detective crime mystery series. She also wrote under the alias Jodie Sinclair for a variety of freestanding novels. Just like many other authors, Bolitho fits the cliché of following the clichéd working life before and during their writing career. Just like many fellow published writers, earning a living was never a separate pursuit from her writing as she drew a lot of her stories from her previous working experiences. Before becoming a…