Detective

influence can be exemplified by well-known films. Poe was an American short-story writer, poet, and critic. He is most famous for his ability to skillfully craft tales of dreamlike and macabre forces; Poe is also considered the father of the modern detective story. In his earlier years, Poe lost both his parents and, by the age of three, was taken to live with his godfather. In 1826, he enrolled in…

Traditional crime stories have changed over time due to the values and changing contexts within different societies. The film ‘Rear Window’ composed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954, America and the short detective story ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ in the novel ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1891, England illustrate how the values and changing contexts within a society contributes to the changing conventions of the genre of crime. Crime texts are valued and…

Nancy is a young detective in the 1940’s and she has solved many mysteries before. It starts out with Nancy trying to find a birthday present for her dad in an anticic store. As she leaves the store she walks into a women who ask her to take her home. Nancy being a nice young lady help the old women get home. She lived in a mansion and had a maid waiting at the door for her arrival. This old women turned out to a queen who had to run away from her country a long time ago. Nancy went out with…

Did you ever want to become one of the best detectives like the people movies? Well, most of the best detective uses the steps I am going to teach you. So I am going to help you solve a case that will help you solve more cases. The case is about someone who robbed a rare fish. So the police officer tries to find the thief, but there was a street with five houses and they know that one of those houses is the thief. It is only to you the best detective in the world (That is you.) So now you will…

1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith and Murder on the Ballarat Train by Kate Dennis are extremely different kinds of Detective Fiction and therefore contain some key differences. In McCall Smith’s text, the crimes are not as significant compared to those in Dennis’. Also, in Smith’s text, the criminals are not as worthy as those found in Dennis’. Both texts have very memorable detectives for different reasons. These texts are definitely on opposite ends of the detective fiction…

we were going to be writing a series of three short stories over the course of roughly five weeks (one week for brainstorming, and one week per story). Since all of the stories had to correlate with each other, I decided to write cliché, parodic detective noir. The star of my series was a “hard-boiled” sleuth named Leigh Gavera, whose appearance was heavily based on James Gordon from Batman. I had an A- in the class, so I figured the project would be a piece of cake. I did not care for writing,…

At the age of ten, my family and I traveled extensively due to my father’s military career. We actually experienced life through the tough years when the United States fought in the Vietnam, “conflict”. Many members of my immediate and extended family have served their country in various affiliations within the corp; this includes my own son, in the Marine Corp. As a child of traveling parents, I felt like a gypsy unable to plant a solid foundation; however, I did develop a sense of free…

Half the time I was racking my brain trying to solve the case, the other half I was hooked on to the storyline. The stake-outs, interrogations and court proceedings all felt very real to me. So was the language used by the detectives. The author leaves a trail of hints like little drops of honey, which however sweet they were when consumed they left one with a hunger for more. The plot followed a natural course of development; moving from one logical step to another making the…

The novel The Pledge is originally subtitled Requiem for the Detective Novel. In what way is The Pledge a traditional detective novel and in what way is it not? Discuss. The Pledge is a crime novella written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt in the 1950’s. Since it was originally subtitled Requiem for the Detective Novel, this raises the question – how is it so different from other novels in the same genre? This question will be answered in this essay by thoroughly analyzing the plot as well as the…

In the opening of Poe’s tales we are introduced to detective Dupin through a description of his character in ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, and by a description of his character’s actions in ‘The Purloined Letter’ by the narrator, the detective’s partner, who in this case remains nameless. Immediately after that we are made aware that a crime has been committed. To solve the crime one must have the ability to put oneself in the criminal’s mind and understand things from their perspective. In…