Look For Me Book Report

Despite the subject of the novel, it maintains the light, stimulating tone common in detective fiction. The murder is presented as a puzzle for the characters (and the reader) to solve, rather than a violent tragedy.

Hanne Wilhelmsen is a Scandinavian detective who is good at her job, and suffers more from a shoestring budget inside the police force more than any existential problems. She is involved in a committed relationship with another woman, but does not advertise this to the people that she works with. There is a male friend that she has who is a public prosecutor, he kind of acts as a Dr. Watson to her Holmes. She is arrogant, and also rather attractive. Besides being a cop, Wilhelmsen has worked as a lawyer, news anchor, and a journalist.

When many people think of a murder mystery, they think of a dark and stormy night, a large forbidding house, a gunshot heard by everyone yet seen by no one, and the phrases "you 're probably wondering why I called you all here", "The butler did it", and of course not forgetting "elementary, my dear Watson". In the end, the intelligent and very observant detective solves the case, and justice, sometimes through the courts and sometimes poetic is served.

      One of the conventions of the detective story is that the detective if frequently an amateur. In "The

Edgar Allen Poe and Agatha Christie are pioneers of the detective genre who both used the shared conventions of classical detective – ethos of a supreme detective and false suspect – to help create an enticing detective story. To establish the ethos of a supreme detective, the narrator, customarily a sidekick, describes the detective as an outlier who has superb analytical thinking skills, does not emotionally get attached to a case, and always solves the case. In addition to giving the detective a godly stature, it is typical in amateur detective stories to see a false suspect be blamed for a crime he or she did not commit. Agatha Christie advances the classical detective subgenre by progressively revealing in “The Witness of the Prosecution”

William W. Stowe continues to create an understanding of the genre where “Detective fiction tends to affirm rather than question, to take social structures, moral codes and ways of knowing the given, rather than subjecting them to thorough, principled criticism. In detective fiction, crime is usually seen as a personal evil rather than a social injustice and the detective is depicted as an ideal incarnation of competitive individualism… the truth although elusive, is ultimately

Male authors during this time would create a female protagonist, but would undermine their abilities and the character itself. The female detectives would play the part of a good amature dectective, but at the end of the story they would come to some kind of realization that detective work is not suitable for a women, and then would be married off. In Anna Green’s, That Affair Next Door, she writes about a detective by the name of Miss. Butterworth, who would come to surpass her predecessors. In the novel, Miss. Butterworth is proving people wrong, not only the fictional characters, but people reading the novel as well. That Affair Next door was written in 1897, almost forty years before women had the right to vote (Ross 1). Anna Green’s detective stories were attempting to push the envelope, by doing this she was trying to take acquire more rights for females. Her novels inspired plenty of kids to follow their dreams and push them to make something of themselves. Her novels reached out to women everywhere, letting them know they could be more than just a

Detective fiction usual "evolves" them to "crestfallen" them: to "outdo" investigator fiction is to compose creative writing not detective fiction. Detective fiction is not just written in one genre, but in many. Be that as it may, we should start by illustrating the sorts which likewise indicate with their delimitation. We should take as our purpose of the great investigator fiction, which accomplish its top between the two world wars and is frequently called the whodunit. At the base of the whodunit we discover a duality, and it is this duality which will direct our depiction. This novel contains not one but rather two stories: the narrative of the wrongdoing and the account of the investigation. These two stories have no reason for normal

The creation of a detective fiction novel does not always have to be based on the mystery of a crime or something recent. For an author to shake up the detective fiction world and do something outside the box is new. The woman bold enough to do this is Josephine Tey and her story The Daughter of Time.

In 1944 the literary critic Edmund Wilson wrote an exasperated essay in the pages of The New Yorker titled “Why Do People Read Detective Stories?’’ Wilson, who at the time was about to go abroad to cover the allied bombing campaign on Germany, felt that he had grown out the detective genre at the age of twelve, by that time he had read through the stories from the early masters of the detective genre, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. Even tho everyone he knew seemed to be addicted the genre. His wife at that time, Mary McCarthy, was in the habit of recommending her favorite detective novels to their émigré pal Vladimir Nabokov; she gave him H. F. Heard’s beekeeper whodunit “A Taste for Honey,” which he enjoyed while recovering

If a detective showed up in my novel he/she would be investigating the deaths of two teenage girls, who mysteriously disappeared after holding a séance. The detective would investigate primary suspects, or anyone who seemed to have part in the murders. As any detective would, the investigator would be obligated to investigate since two homicides occurred in the book. It is a part of the detective’s job to find out exactly why lives are taken, and how.

For the subgenre of police procedural, the detective works as a member of the police in an effort at uncovering the identity of the killer. In the 1940s, police procedural grew as a new style of detective fiction. This includes lots of details about crime detection, interviewing and forensic techniques. Unlike the heroes of Christie, Chandler, police detective was subject to inaccuracy and was constrained by rules and regulations. Many stories have officers as a main character. They may take a variety of ways, but many authors try to realistically depict the routine done by officers who are frequently working on more than one case simultaneously. Some of these stories are whodunits; in others, the criminal is well known, and it is a case of

Most often, people have an image in their mind when they think of detectives, whether the image is a man in a trench coat holding a magnifying glass, a beloved childhood character like Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys, or the classic Victorian detective. While all of these may hold true, one specific person comes to mind at the mention of a detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Along with images of detectives come preconceived ideas of what a detective or mystery novel should be or what it should contain. Within the genre, numerous authors have stood out among the others and set their own standard for these works of literature. In The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Doyle employs juxtaposed settings, descriptive imagery, and the symbolism that each convey to establish an immense attention to detail which maximizes the effectiveness of his writing in the genre of detection in this classic Sherlock Holmes story.

Detectives in the majority novels show no emotion and often have a sarcastic attitude. They often live alone and only depend on themselves to survive. Detective Marlowe is not married by does recognizes women and their troubles that he believes follows them. Detective Marlowe was hired to find and search for who stole the sexual nude pictures of Carmen and was holding them as black man. Women in detective films are viewed as being uneasy and weak individuals. If they are not viewed as uneasy and weak they are viewed as scandalous. Women are constantly fit and sculpted to fit the role of a woman who serves only to a man and his needs and wants. Carmen was portrayed as a persuasive woman found naked passed out with a dead man at her feet. In a way also vulnerable and searching for a protector to save her from the person that is blackmailing her. She is also a persuasive woman who convinced everyone surrounding her that she was the victim. She uses her sexuality in a way of getting what she wants. A woman who bats her eyes at men and has a flirtatious body

The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency was written by Alexander Smith. This novel was set in Botswana ,a country just north of South Africa. The author spent some time in Botswana before writing this story and it is very clear, he gives his view of the people that live there while showing their everyday lives through his characters. In this novel the main character, Mma Ramotswe becomes the first ever woman detective in Botswana, and because she is a woman, she is doubted. She goes and proves her skeptics wrong as she solve the cases of people in their community. She even has this really big case that lasts for the whole the book that keeps the audience on their feet. He also talks about important things in the novel. In his book,The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith portrays the setting through the way of life,gender roles,and traditions and values.