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Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
1,556 wordsThere are many different books, in many different genres. There are horror novels, love stories, suspenseful books, and detective stories. The detective story's evolution has been a long and eventful process. The man responsible for the biggest leap in the detective story was Arthur Conan Doyle. He gave the world Sherlock Holmes, who could be considered the greatest investigator in detective story history. Holmes was unique in detective story history. .".. The reader's interest is captivated not...
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Body Of Water Maltese Falcon
1,356 wordsA Unique Setting in the Changing World of Early 20 th Century Detective Fiction The Pacific coast port city of San Francisco, California provides a distinctively mysterious backdrop in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. Unlike many other detective stories that are anchored in well-known metropolises such as Los Angeles or New York City, Hammett opted to place the events of his text in the lesser-known, yet similarly exotic cultural confines of San Francisco. Hammett used his own intricate kn...
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Inspector Goole Inspector Calls
1,390 words... contained in house with an astute detective asking them questions. The detective is very important to the audience, setting out the entire story, which on the whole is quite confusing. He is the one who enlightens the members of the family and the audience as to the culprit of every particular crime. This is very important as, one by one, a wide range of people, the young, the old, men and women are held accountable for their past actions. It is also Goole who puts across the main social the...
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Elizabeth Arnold Foster Father
2,674 wordsEdgar Allan Poe was born on January 19 in Boston Massachusetts. in 1809 (Dameron, par. 1). His parents David and Elizabeth Arnold Poe both were involved in the theater. David Poe was a actor in Baltimore, and Elizabeth just the same. They were not especially talented actors, the played minor roles in insignificant theater. There love for the theater barley made them a living. David mysteriously disappeared in 1810. His mother Elizabeth Arnold later died of Tuberculosis in December of 1811, Edgar...
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Edgar Allan Poe Detective Stories
713 wordsEdgar Allan Poe had one of the greatest impacts on American Romantic and Gothic literature. All the grief that he put up with he put into his short stories and poetry. He could translate anything bad that came into his life in to words this is one of the ways he would cope with things and he was great at it. Edgar Allan Poe? s mother died when he was two years old after his father left the family about a year prior. ? His mother died at the tender age of twenty-four dealt two-year-old Edgar a cr...
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Edgar Allan Poe York Chelsea House
2,135 wordsThe detective story is a tale that features a mystery and / or the commission of a crime, emphasizing the search for a solution. It distinguishes itself from other forms of fiction by the fact that it is a puzzle. The detective story did not just spring into being in its current form, but rather, evolved over time. The first true detective stories were written by Edgar Allan Poe. Many writers and critics have plainly stated that he is the inventor of detective fiction. Poe introduces one of the ...
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