Whodunit

Detective stories are one of the most complicated genres there are. With a good detective story comes many aspects: a good crime, a thorough investigation, some red herrings to throw the reader off, and a lot of action. But, most of all, detective stories need a good and qualified detective at the helm. Easily the most famous of all detectives in the genre and possibly the world is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Being the most enduring character of detective stories, he is known for having “an obsessive personality.” Two traits of many, placidity and arrogance, come together to define Sherlock Holmes an enduring character. A first reason Holmes is a loved character is due to his impassivity. In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” Doyle brings this to life by juxtapositioning to show contrast and using foils. Upon exploding into Holmes room tossing threats around, Roylott squawks, “‘I know you, you scoundrel! I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler’. . . Holmes chuckled heartily. ‘Your conversation is most entertaining,’ said he” (Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band 9). Doyle braids together the lunatic comments from Dr. Grimesby Roylott (Helen and Julia Stoners’ stepfather) and the unruffled comments from Holmes. When Roylott is degrading Holmes and his work, Holmes responds by facetiously commenting on the future weather forecast. They are foils because Holmes is composed and Dr. Roylott is not composed. Along with the comments made, a…

Since the mystery genre’s first detective was introduced by Edgar Allen Poe in 1841, the problem solving, puzzling, pieces of writing in the mystery genre have attracted a large quantity of people towards this genre. As time goes on, individuals started to look for more complex, intricate literature, but compiling most of the mystery genre pieces together, you will see various commonalities amongst them all. I am going to be analyzing and explaining how, The Fifth Floor, meets the key components…

It had an archway of wrought-iron curlicues, stonewalls, a lush Victorian style rose garden off to one side, and hundreds of rows of white gravestones. I read on. Do you believe in ghosts? Apparently most people in Whodunit Hill now do, especially, after last night’s mysterious “sighting” of the apparition known as Captain MacBride. According to police reports, at midnight a group of men heard shrieks coming from the historic mansion off Rosewood Way. While investigating the noise one…

A Whodunit for All Time HOLLAND, MI - A few weeks ago, a woman fell to her untimely death in the atrium of Schaap Science Center at Hope College. Because the woman was a teaching assistant at Hope College in a class where few students were doing well, foul play was immediately suspected by the investigating officers. While security footage did not capture her death, the Holland Police Department forensics team was able to collect biological data from the scene for analysis. Since that time,…

The atmosphere on Whodunit is twice as big as earth’s atmosphere. As the atmosphere grows it blocks out any poisonous gases or any other dangerous chemicals that could harm anyone or anything. Whodunit has a thick enough atmosphere to prevent poisonous rays of radiation from getting in, just like earth’s atmosphere. As the atmosphere around the planet grows so does their magnetic field and higher increase of carbon dioxide. The temperature around the inside of the atmosphere is 350c below…

Following the Ways of the Scientific Method The scientists solved the Elkhorn Coral mystery using the scientific method by following each step of the method to come to a conclusion as to what is killing the coral. The followed the steps precisely so that would not make any errors during their trials. They started with the first step of the scientific method, making an observation. Paragraph 7, sentence 1 of “Underwater Whodunit: What’s Killing Florida’s Elkhorn Coral” states, “Hot on the trail…

Peril at End House Writer, Agatha Christie in her book “Peril at End House,” implies the rules of a detective story. The story has a gloomy, yet suspenseful tone and is a murder/ crime story. Although the murderer is in plain sight, she plays a big role in the story as it unfolds. It is not discovered that she is the true murderer until the end of the story. This book is particularly a detective crime fiction book. Agatha Christie’s “Peril at End House” is a mix of two subgenres of detective…

the main character Poirot. Third, comparison between Murder on the Orient Express and: Miss Murple and the character Sherlock Holmes. Lastly, the closure of the paper. Laura’s work goes from the second paragraph on page 6- The purpose of this work is to understand why this novel was hailed as a success, getting to know more about Agatha Christie’s work and to go in depth on this masterpiece. MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976) is considered the grand dame of British…

Oedipus the King unfurls as a murder riddle, a political spine chiller, and a mental whodunit. All through this mythic story of patricide and inbreeding, Sophocles accentuates the incongruity of a man resolved to find, uncover, and rebuff a professional killer, who ends up being himself. Mindful that a loathsome revile has occurred for Thebes, he sends his brother by marriage, Creon, to look for the exhortation of Apollo. Creon illuminates Oedipus that the revile will be lifted if the killer of…

and the Rose Trevelyan series. Set in a landscape that was overly familiar to the author, the setting seems to come to life in its remarkable attention to detail. While Janie Bolitho’s novels are classified as crime detective mysteries, the argument could be made that they are more of a cozy mystery subgenre. They lack most of the gore and blood that the much of crime detective mysteries typically have though they have a lot of atmosphere and plenty of fast-paced action. Her first police…