Detective

The famous British mystery writer, Agatha Christie, has made an impact on the way mystery authors create suspenseful stories in the modern world, the way plays are created and how her disappearance has frightened this realm. Murder mystery genres created a great part of Agatha’s writing career. Along with writing, Christie’s playwriting profession took off after writing her famous play, “The mousetrap”, which began in 1952. Numerous years after a fortunate career, Agatha Christie then soon…

compared to the works of Mark Edward, Stephen Leather, or Simon Kernick. The novels feature two protagonists Detective Sargent Wendy Knight and Detective Chief Inspector Jack Culverhouse. Over the course of the books, the two detectives are involved in the investigation of a series of bizarre murders that more or less look like serial killings. But what makes the Knight and Culverhouse…

movies and books. In particular Nancy Drew appeared in the 2007 movie Nancy Drew, and Sherlock Holmes appeared in the book The Hound of the Baskervilles.Although Nancy Drew has modern technology equipment to help her, Sherlock Holmes is a better detective because his powers of deduction, instinctual actions, and reliance on a sidekick help him be more efficient. Watson, Sherlock Holmes’ partner, is his long time friend throughout the Sherlock Holmes series. Having a strong bond with your…

Investigator, the continental Op, as he experiences and solves a robbery in the small island of Couffignal. Throughout the story the Op’s mannerisms show he is a sensitive person not only a hardened investigator. The Op is cynical because being a detective has forced him to see the bad in the world. This has caused him to mistrust peOple on first contact and also a defense mechanism, so he does not get tricked and can solve a case to the best of one’s ability. The Op also distances himself from…

crimes using primary sources, including videotapes, recordings, interviews, visits to the crime scene, and testimonies. In “Killer Performance,” conversations between Steve Herr and the 911 Operator, as well as the second conversation between a detective with Julie’s parents were presented. True crimes stories leave out pieces of evidence to make the story more dramatic. For example, in my story “The Unstable Tree,” I didn’t mention every detail of the lives of Luis and Savannah to keep the…

his neighborhood in an attempt to gather information and evidence as to who killed his neighbor’s dog. Detective work becomes a big step for Christopher, as he does not enjoy talking to strangers. He admits “it takes me a long time to get used to people I do not know. I just watch them until they are safe. (...) so talking to the people on our street was brave. But if you are going to do detective work you have to be brave, so I had no choice” (Haddon 67). Thus, Christopher’s internal drive to…

The world of mystery novels has made a great series of books, but this world has changed to a more modern version, television shows. This more modern series has had a great impact on the mystery genre. I’m curious to know how the characters of And Then There Were None compare to those of these crime solving T.V. shows, how the motives of these psychopaths in real life also comparable to those of Mr. Justice Wargrave, and how the styles of murder in these T.V. shows compared to the style of…

An easily noticeable example of the hardboiled detective can be seen in Sam Spade, main character in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Sam Spade is seen as this archetype due to his attributes, many of which are consistent with the Noir genre of the time. One such attribute of Spade’s is his ability to reason and think things through. He justifies the means for his actions, which seems meticulously thought out and premeditated. When he meets Mr. Gutman in the room, Sam Spade attempts to take back…

1886. Transcending literature onto stage and screen, Sherlock Holmes continues to fascinate audiences to this day. The Sherlock Holmes exhibition of The Museum of London titled “The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die”, London’s first on the detective since 1951, uses early film, photography and paintings plus original Victorian era artefacts to recreate the atmosphere of Sherlock’s London, and to re-imagine the places featured in Conan Doyle’s famous stories. The fictitious character…

A murdered husband, a wife behind bars and a daughter determined to prove her mother’s innocence with the help of Europe’s most infamous detective. A cunning and manipulative man, Hercule Poirot’s psychologically centered investigative skills make him the moral and intellectual superhero of this twisted tale. In her novel Five Little Pigs, Agatha Christie tells the story of heartbreak, betrayal and revenge that wraps up in an unforeseeable revelation. Dame of the British Empire and wildly…