Scooby Doo : Suspicion : The Horrors Of The Story?

Additionally, Agatha Christie uses foreshadowing to build suspense. After the guests’ first dinner a voice accuses each of them of murder. Philip Lombard discovers the source of the voice came from a record

In the story, verbal and dramatic irony are used to show the woman’s superiority in analyzing the crime scene over the men’s analysis. The two women in the story, Mrs. Peters and Martha Hale, analyze the crime scene much better than the men because they see the struggle of Minnie’s rebellion from her husband. In the story, “Wives themselves, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are able to determine Mrs. Wright’s frame of mind from

Mary Maloney is a pregnant wife of a police officer. Her husband came home one day and told her something sad. She ended up killing him. But for whatever reason got away with it. She came up with a smart alibi that proved she was innocent. And the police officers believed it. Mary was smart “she carried the meat into the kitchen, placed it in a pan, turned the oven on high, and shoved it inside. Then she washed her hands and ran upstairs to the bedroom. She sat down before the mirror, tidied her hair, touched up her lips and face. She tried a smile. It came out rather peculiar, she tried again. She rehearsed it several times more.”(Roald 14) Mary thought fast after she killed him because “as the wife of a detective, she knew quite well what the penalty would be.” (Roald 13) If it wasn’t for Mary’s alibi, none of this would have been believable.

To write a good mystery novel takes time and only a few authors have been successful in writing them. Mystery novels has been around for a period of time with historical authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle and recent author Stephen King. In these novels, clues are provided by the author and Christopher Boone, narrator of the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, states, “If it is a good puzzle you can sometimes work out the answer before the end of the book” (5). In relation to this, the most valuable information is typically gained throughout the process of the investigation rather than the solution itself. Although the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is not classified as a detective story, the plot still goes through an investigation and shares elements of a mystery novel. The mystery within the story that keeps the novel going is to find the killer of Mrs. Shears’ poodle, Wellington, and in turn, shapes the ending where the audience sees the development of the protagonist, Christopher, through the investigation itself, the journey to London and his overall ability as a writer.

While each proses a serve of justice and determination to do the right thing; the men approach the crime scene emotionless, indifferent and determined to go in and get to the bottom of the mystery as quick as possible, and push aside the little details. Little do they know that the things they are putting off could be very essential to their case? For example, in a conversation between the attorney and Mr. Hale who remarks, “..I said to Harry that I didn’t know as what his wife wanted made such a difference to John..” who was interrupted by the attorney in mid conversation and interjects, “Let’s talk about that later, Mr. Hale. I do want to talk about that, but tell now just what happened when you got to the house.” (1127) Meanwhile, while the men are out on their hunt for clues, the women stay in the kitchen to look through Mrs. Wright’s things and discuss a motive for why she killed her husband. Glaspell proposes a plan that by looking deeper into circumstances, you may in turn fully understand its true meaning; leaving no stone left unturned.

“They tend to share certain key characteristics. They're manipulative, cold, and lack what we might call a moral compass--they know right from wrong but are not invested in that distinction. Their only concern with their ‘wrong’ behavior is getting caught, but because they are deceitful, callous and not subject to anxiety, they easily elude capture” (Spikol, 5). These sort of criminals were ones that the Chicago Police Department had never been introduced to before, causing them to change their entire perspective on cases once Holmes’ had passed. According to John Bartlow Martin, a writer for the “Harper’s Archive”, Holmes’ murder castle was filled with trapdoors, gas chambers, secret passageways, and even pits of acid used to get rid of bodies and other pieces of evidence. These were all things that the law enforcers had never even heard of in a story, much less seen or thought of in real life. It’s safe to say that Holmes drastically affected the police’s outlook on the cases in the near, and even far, future of criminals after his mystery; or at least part of his mystery had been

However, Holmes says to Mrs. St. Clair, “but if your husband is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away from you” (Doyle, 1994, p. 125). This clue leaves the readers wondering, trying to figure out the mystery of Neville St. Clair. Holmes gathers enough evidence to help show the readers how the solution to the mystery is very reasonable. Conan Doyle makes the solution a little harder to figure out, but with a little thought readers should be able to come up with the same solution that Holmes identifies in “The Man with the Twisted Lip.”

The “10 Commandments” established by Ronald Knox as well as the “Twenty rules for writing detective stories” by Willard Huntington Wright, are all followed (for the most part) whether intentional or not, by McDermid and result in this gripping novel. The rules establish the “fair-play” aspect of the puzzle mystery which McDermid proves are effective in keeping us engrossed by the story and leaves the reader the feeling like the detective, that they are just on the cusp of solving something big. The mystery keeps us in the dark but not so much so that we cannot see a light and the end of the tunnel. The mystery may initially have the reader baffled, but as we discover evidence with the detective, the reader feels that there is more to it than what meets the eye and leaves us hungry for more information. The most important and common laws of the puzzle game are to play fairly with the reader. There should be no supernatural intervention and the reader must not be deceived. As McDermid mentioned in her interview with BBC Radio, the reader

In the short story, “The Landlady,” Roald Dahl creates suspense through his use of foreshadowing. After entering the lady’s house and signing into the guestbook, Billy notices only two names in the book, “Christopher Mulholland. It rings a bell,” Billy comments when he recognizes one of the names. This builds suspense by showing that Billy and Christopher Mulholland are in some way connected or the same thing that happened to Mulholland will happen to Billy. Another example of building suspense is when Billy says, “They both appear to be connected together as well.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle utilizes many detail-oriented literary elements to develop the many adventures of the famous fictional British detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, John Watson. Long winded description and complex vocabulary are infused into Doyle’s writing to accentuate Holmes’s great intelligence. By incorporating such a heavy, educated tone upon the mysteries, the tales of Sherlock Holmes are expressed as very complicated stories that challenge readers in comprehension as well as encourage curiosity through puzzling cases.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle utilizes many detail-oriented literary elements to develop the many adventures of the famous fictional British detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, John Watson. Long winded description and complex vocabulary are infused into Doyle’s writing to accentuate Holmes’s great intelligence. By incorporating such a heavy, educated tone upon the mysteries, the tales of Sherlock Holmes are expressed as very complicated stories that challenge readers in comprehension as well as encourage curiosity through puzzling cases.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle utilizes many/several detail-oriented literary elements to develop the many adventures of the famous fictional British detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, John Watson. Long winded description and complex vocabulary are infused into Doyle’s writing to accentuate Holmes’s great intelligence. By incorporating such a heavy, educated tone upon the mysteries, the tales of Sherlock Holmes are expressed as very complicated stories that challenge readers in comprehension as well as encourage curiosity through puzzling cases.

While there has been criticism of the Holmesian method of deduction, many people support the idea that the use of deducing people can help with capture of criminals. While Holmes refers to his findings as deduction himself many people say, “that the process that Sherlock Holmes engages in is usually not deduction” (Novella). Deduction is defined as using a logic method of assumptions based on general statements about the world (Novella). However, Holmes himself makes more of an educated inference on what he observes about the suspects and evidence in his surroundings. The term “Holmesian Deduction” has been used to distinguish the two different methods (Novella). Holmes most famous quote, “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”, is often cited as the best definition to his method of deduction. While it is not a method commonly used now thanks to more advances in crime fighting methods and technology, Holmesian deduction has certainly influenced that way we look at a crime scene.

Mysteries are forces that drive people to want to know more. Often a mystery goes unresolved, much like Christopher Marlowe’s murder. Many theories have been made to explain the truth behind the famous play write’s death. Although, Marlowe’s death is not the only secret that surrounds him; many people in England during his time believed he had a secret job. Christopher Marlowe’s childhood was as normal as any child’s; however, as he grew up his job was far from normal along with his murder which has brought about many questions and three main theories, but he will always be remembered for the many entertaining plays he wrote.

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