Fictional amateur detectives

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,…

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.…

ways by observing deeper. Living in the U.K., is a society full of crime and detective work. The Scotland Yard has many detectives working all year round to solve the mind-bending cases. Each detective sets out to find the one true answer, the one everyone fights to solve. They look for objects to support their claim, which hopefully leads to a guilty individual. Even with so many law workers around, one detective is the only that can fully solve the answer. The society in which Holmes…

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…

coming from inside. The next morning, we find out that a mother and daughter were murdered by an unknown killer, and the mother has her neck cut from her body outside the house window and the daughter was strangled and shoved into a fireplace. Two detectives, the unnamed narrator and Dupin both investigate the house and interrogate many witnesses to get clues about the killer, However useless, Dupin figures out that it was not a human who killed them but an animal. The animal belonged to a…

“Black Death” started with the introduction of Old Man Morgan and begins to illustrate Old Man Morgan being a “hoodoo” doctor, casting curses and successfully killing people without getting physically involved. The story Moves on to say Morgan’s most recognizable murder and “masterpiece” was the Beau case. Which starts with Beau Diddely being shown as a wealthy man with a lover whose name is Docia Boger. When Beau decides to leave the town, Docia’s mother was worried Beau would not marry her.…

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…

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…

notice the culprit in detective books and I was furious than other people whenever I meet many unsolved cases in the media. I have always wanted to help the weak. To realize my dream, exactly to become a psychologist, I started to study again in college. Resources that help my achieve towards becoming a criminal psychologist are logical mind, calm and meticulous nature, tendency not to put up with mysteries, concerns about social events and accidents, reading many detective novels,…

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…