Fictional amateur detectives

Follow the Sherlock trail across London Since the time we are born we have many interesting stories circulating our world but what catches to the whims and fancies of our minds is the mystical world of Sherlock Homes a character from the creations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writings. The character has gone through a multitude of incarnations over the last couple of years. During the recent times in one of the BBC series Sherlock which showcased some of the famous cases that clearly pictured…

Agatha Christie is one of the greatest mystery novel writers of all time, if not the greatest. Her work is carefully written and architected. She will bring all of the emotions into her stories. For example, fear, excitement, sadness, betrayal, anger, and joy. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie is the best example of these emotions, and the best example of the way she writes her stories. This book was carefully put together with an immense amount of planning. The reader will not be…

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…

As Edgar Allan Poe states in one of his many great poems, “deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before” (Brainy Quotes). This quotes not only tells you of the depth in all of Poe’s poems, but also of his great mind capacity. Poe has made many great contributions to literature over time, and even though he died more than a century ago, his works still influence the mind of many great writers today.…

them, and reacted violently. Poe writes the explanation in a way where Dupin tells all of the important characters what he has discovered in a sweeping reveal that shocks both the characters and the reader. This is a style that is copied in many detective writings and is used by many characters from Holmes to…

The Thesis of the Baskervilles Every day, cases happen in the detective department of a police station. Nobody knows whether the mysteries will be solved or will be known as a mystery forever. Detective skills date back to the 1800’s and people before that most likely used clues to solve mysteries. But even a detective’s assistant can be more important than the officer himself. In the book The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Watson, a detective’s assistant, is set off to…

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…

Spy fiction is a common genre when it comes to books and movies. Stormbreaker is one of those many spy fiction novels that most of us have read at least once. The novel was written by Anthony Horowitz and has been the winner of many awards. Stormbreaker has also been produced into a film, directed by Geoffrey Sax. The following pages will be discussing the question, ‘Why is Stormbreaker a good example of spy fiction?’ and it’s main character Alex Ryder, the villain Herod Sayle and the novel's…

The short fiction piece I chose to analyze was “Little Man” by Michael Cunningham. According to The New Yorker, “Little Man” reinvents “Rumpelstiltskin.” The last time I read “Rumpelstiltskin” was an awfully long time ago, so after reading “Little Man,” I revisited my Tales from Grim children’s book and read “Rumpelstiltskin” to understand the parallels. The stories are quite similar, but they do have slight differences. In “Little Man,” “a two-hundred-year-old gnome” yearns for a child. The…

Abstract Saadat Hasan Manto is one of the greatest short story writers in Urdu literature who has produced twenty two collections of short stories dealing with different subjects such as partition, human life, social taboos, communal violence, so on and so forth. His stories revolving round the subject of partition of the subcontinent after independence in 1947 are more famous and more known than his other stories. Toba Tek Singh is one such story, a masterpiece, which is interwoven with the…