Detective

The Perfect Detective What does it take to solve a crime? Knowledge? Instinct? These are the questions that flow throughout the minds of average people. In Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie, Christie is able to show the reader the thinking behind solving a case. With Christie's writing, it brings the reader to experience the workings of detective. These workings ultimately make up one of the most famous main characters. Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, better known as Agatha…

reader in the murder mysteries, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Speckled Band. One quality is the narrator of the story. The narrators tell the story in their points of view. Another quality is the detective themselves. The different detecting skills. An additional quality is who the detective was helping (the client), the characters, where the murders took place and who committed the murder. Poe’s story introduces a new genre of short fiction in American literature along with brain…

boiled”, meaning that they are tough both on the outside and on the inside. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, a rugged San Francisco detective shows many resembling traits of a hard boiled detective, but also has the ability to show some compassion when necessary. Part of what defines a detective as, “hard boiled”, is how tough both mentally and physically said detective is. Sam Spade fits into this criteria like a cookie cutter fits into dough. Throughout The Maltese Falcon, Spade shows his…

lead characters of the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes series of detective thriller novels by Laurie R. King. The two characters made their first appearance in the debut novel of the series The Bookkeepers’ Apprentice that was first published in 1994. Mary Russell is a young woman who stumbles into the legendary Sherlock Holmes in 1915 to start a brilliant mystery series. The series of novels begins in 1915 with the world famous detective Holmes enjoying his retirement and farming bees when he…

Holmes is a drug-using manic-depressive with a superiority complex and a long list of other symptoms that can be cataloged as mental illnesses" (Faktorovich, 183). For the 19th century detective genre, Sherlock Holmes was the ideal of a flawed protagonist – imperfect in character but exceptional in his capacity for detective work. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes is "a new and unique hero figure” (Faktorovich, 175 and an eccentric in the truest sense of the word. Rather than detracting from his…

Conan Doyle, and Hercule Poirot, created by Agatha Christie, are both famed intellectual detectives and share many aspects, there are also many distinctions that distinguish their characters from one another, the most prominent examples being their appearance, their…

KEY News is a series of thrillers written by one of the best media thriller writers, Mary Jane Clark. The novels feature several characters that work in the KEY News news agency in New York City. The first novel in the series was the 1998 published Do You Want to Know a Secret? The series of novels are best classified as suspense thrillers. KEY News is one of the premier news stations in New York City that is inspired by Jane Clark’s time working with CBS before she became an author. The…

Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective in the world, is one of the most recognizable literary characters. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legacy has been immortalized many times throughout the years in various small and big screen adaptations. One of the more recent and positively reviewed is the 2009 mystery action flick simply titled Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie. Robert Downey Jr. steps into the shoes of the great detective and is set on the momentous task of hunting down Lord Henry…

his own surprise, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became one of the most famed authors in the field of crime fiction after the creation of British private detective Sherlock Holmes and his associate Dr. John Watson. Even though the novels and short stories were published during the late 1800’s, people today still consider Holmes the most well-known detective of all time. The dynamic duo’s profound effect on society has led to thousands of adaptions of the mysteries on stage, television, movies, and…

To begin with a case in Fullerton, California, Andre Daigle was innocently enjoying a game of pool one night. He was given a ride by a seemingly considerate young woman, only to not make it home. Andre’s sister Elise went to seek aid to psychic detective Rosemarie Kerr because the police assumed Andre was taking time out with the girl. According to Toptenznet,…