Whodunit

The world keeps developing at a high speed, with the evolvement of our civilization. Those who contributed to the wealth and peace of the present world are frequently regarded as generals, emperors or other heroic figures that defeated the evil and helped with the growth of economy. But what we cannot neglect is the power of knowledge and its impact on emancipating our thoughts, which indeed has promoted the process of human gaining wealth and peace. In this case, I found out that to me, through

A Detective’s Perspective: Cuff’s Use of Language Analyzed Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone is widely considered one of the first detective novels. Collins’s character, Sergeant Cuff, is also considered one of the first detective characters and is developed through his use of rhetoric. Cuff makes use of the three rhetorical appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos is used to establish his qualifying traits as a capable detective, logos is used to logically support his position, and pathos is used

The Golden Age of detective fiction refers to both specific sub-genre and (the cozy) and the historical period (the interwar years) (James, 2009). It is loosely defined as a soft-boiled detective fiction released between the two wars (World War 1 and World War 2). The Golden age of detective fiction was arguably caused by the interwar period (James, 2009). This paper seeks to discuss, with references to the fictions of Agatha Christie and other canonical Golden Age texts, why the Detection fiction

Mystery: A Problem to Solve and A Reality to Experience “Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one”. (Green 8). Paper Towns by John Green is a “brilliantly crafted, funny and coming-of-age journey about true friendship and true love”, (Penguin Group). It has won the Edgar Award and can be found in New York Times, Publishers Weekly and USA Today as a bestseller

Often, detectives in detective fiction seek some kind of compensation for their work restoring the world to its natural order. Detectives working purely out of the goodness of their hearts. Nancy Drew, however, breaks many stereotypes—including that she never asks for monetary; in her first adventure of the series, The Secret of the Old Clock, the only physical reward Nancy receives is the symbolic old clock. The story paints Nancy as a wholesome, selfless figure, acting only in the interest of others

Suspense and surprise in And Then There Were None Although every well-written murder mystery does not have fixed mode because the writers of detective story always want to give their readers a unique feeling, suspense and surprise are essential and indispensable features in a well-written murder mystery. (Alewyn 184) In Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, she fully combines suspense and surprise, through the omniscient point of view and poignant plot. Therefore, And Then There Were None

Although Agatha Christie is no longer alive, her legacy and love for mysteries lives on today. Agatha Christie was a writer of all genres but her most influential and remembered book was a thrilling mystery novel titled And Then There Were None. Christie’s use of descriptive and detailed characters are still the typical mystery characters used today. Her book became so famous that they made a movie based off it, but her writing also inspired other movies and works of literature. In the movie Clue

The ABC Murders - Summary and analysis Summary (Spoiler Alert): Hastings, Hercule Poirot's partner and assistant, returns to Britain, just as Poirot receives a sinister letter from an unknown person under the alias ABC. The letter says, that he should look out for Andover, on the 21st of the month. Just as stated in the letter, something happens on the 21st. A woman in Andover, named Alice Asher, turns up dead. On the crime scene an ABC railway guide is found, and Andover is marked. The police

Dorothy L. Sayers’ Gaudy Night When Gayle Wald wrote, “Sayers’s career writing detective stories effectively ends with Gaudy Night” (108), she did not present a new argument, but continued the tradition that Gaudy Night does not center on the detective story.  Barbara Harrison even labeled Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter/Harriet Vane books, Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, and Busman’s Honeymoon, as “deliriously happy-ending romances” (66).  The label stretches the definition of a romance, but Gaudy

Social criticism can be involved in detective fiction, we see equality of the sexes being laughed at. Men in “A Jury of Her Peers” written by Susan Glaspell story, make fun of women, and Glaspell is deliberately critiquing the way men see women. Also, Klein argues that in detective fiction stories the detective is a detective male and the victim is always female. Which refers to in most detective stories women are just the laughing victims in the story and not the hero or seen as the favorite. A