Detective

The American hard-boiled detective was an alternative character to the traditional murder mystery film. This new type of character was ideal for the new noir films that Hollywood directors were starting to produce. These films introduced audiences to a new type of dark and cynical world, in which the character needed to add to the chaos their good or ill-intentions. The hard-boiled detective has the same patterns of the classical detective story. It too has the introduction of the detection, the

Criminology and Philosophy in Detective Fiction Detective fiction consists of various genres that exemplify the intersection of criminology and philosophy. Criminology components can be applied to perpetrators of the crime and their motives even though they are fictional. In a similar manner, the motive and overall story also exemplify components of philosophy. More specifically, the two detective fiction genres of Locked Room stories and Hoist on their Own Petards stories portray crime and perpetrators

Television and written detective fiction are quite different in their presentation as well as the messages that they are able to convey. Television crime is often times able to depict situations in a black and white narrative that books often can’t. What is are the differences in the way that crime is solved in The Wire compared to the way crime is solved in Sherlock’s, Dupin’s, and Poirot’s stories? In The Wire the police teams, at least from what I have observed so far, tend to find out information

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most famous characters in all detective novels. Although The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe is often regarded as a symbol of the detective fiction, which has made detective novels popular in the world was The Complete Sherlock Holmes. With the

setting of the detective fictions, or the “stage” if we view literary works through the lenses of drama, we can move on to a more interesting topic: the “actors”. Character is the most pivotal elements in literary works. Comparing with other literary genre, detective fictions although famous for its complex plot-building, created many vivid characters, especially those courageous and intelligent detectives figures, which win universal praise. As a highly formulated literary genre, the detective personas

Effective Detectives Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allen Poe have created sleuths that are eerily similar to each other. Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Poe’s Auguste Dupin have so much in common. Both are genius male detectives, with less intelligent partners , and solving inextricable mysteries. However, their utmost important similarities are their impressive deductive reasoning, social isolation, and keen observation skills that they exhibit which make them the most effective detectives. Deductive

“for a book to be described as detective fiction there must be a central mystery and one that by the end of the book is solved satisfactorily and logically, not by good luck or intuition, but by intelligent deduction from clues honestly if deceptively presented.” (James. 2009: 16). This is traditionally conducted via a detective; a figure deployed within the narrative structure ‘whose occupation is to investigate crimes’ (Oxford. 2006: 202). Therefore detective fiction represents an enigma, a

No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith recounts a tale about a lady named Precious Ramotswe who had been living with her dad. Her dad had developed a decent sized group of cattle for Precious. He advises her on his deathbed to sell the cattle and purchase a store, whatever store that would make her happy, and she does. She purchases a home and she opens a detective agency, which is the only Ladies’ Detective Agency in the country of Botswana. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective agency has

Gentleman traits of the English detective like Trent’s passion for art and journalism (EC Bentley’s Philip Trent) , Poirot’s interest in clothes and food (Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot) , Wimsey’s taste for the finer things in life (Dorothy Sayers’ Peter Wimsey) - all imply a commitment to the civilised living of an English fop and to security beyond the dark sphere of crime. These are characteristics emitted by the Detective of the Golden Age. Morse’s love for crossword puzzles and pedantry

There are two kinds of detective stories. Though they may intermingle (and often do), many fall squarely on one side of the line or the other. Some murder mysteries choose to focus on the details of the crime itself; the footprint left at the crime scene, the method of the murder, etc. Usually in these stories a brilliant detective comes in and solves the crime with hardly a thought towards 'why'. The other type of detective fiction often has elements of the first type, but chooses to primarily focus