Elements of a Detective Story
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The document provides an introduction to the typical elements found in a detective story. It outlines six key elements: 1) The detective must have unique characteristics that make them memorable. 2) The crime, usually a murder or great theft, must be significant. 3) The criminal must be an intelligent opponent who can match wits with the detective. 4) All suspects, including the criminal, must be introduced early. 5) All clues discovered by the detective must also be available to the reader. 6) The solution must seem logical and obvious when explained by the detective so that the reader feels they could have solved it as well.
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2. Notice and Focus: Simply put, pay close attention to details. “What do you notice?” What is significant/interesting/revealing/ strange. Slow down and take your time here. Don’t jump to interpretations before you’ve exhausted the details. Uncertainty is good.
3. Look for Patterns: Start sifting through the text looking for Repetitions, Strands, Binaries, and Anomalies.
Repetitions: sheep dog in "How to Talk to a Hunter"
Strands: Animals in "How to Talk to a Hunter," alcohol in "Sonny's Blues"
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Anomalies: Mysterious notebook in "One of Star Wars, One of Doom," tin of chocolates with Santa Claus "fondling" children painted on it in "How to Talk to a Hunter"
4. Make the Implicit Explicit: Explain to the reader what the details or the patterns imply. Explain your thought process. Pull out the implications and show them why you think they are “folded in” to the meaning of the text or image. What does this mean and So What? Why is it important?
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#4: Using footn ...
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- 7. 3. The criminal must be a worthy opponent .
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- 9. 4. All the suspects , including the criminal, must be presented early in the story.
- 10. Half the fun of reading a good detective story comes from the mental contest between the reader and the detective in a race to solve the crime. The reader must be able to safely assume that the perpetrator of the crime is one of the main characters in the story, not someone whom the author is going to slip in on the unsuspecting reader in the next-to-the-last chapter.
- 11. 5. All clues discovered by the detective must be made available to the reader.
- 12. Like not springing any surprise suspects, this is another “fair play” rule to which the author must adhere. The reader must be given the same opportunity to solve the crime as the detective, and this means getting the same evidence at the same time it is made available to the detective. Of course, an author may deliberately mislead the reader ( red herrings !), as long as his fictional detective is similarly deceived.
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