Descriptive Writing in Detective Mystery Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
The author is a man who brought detective stories into the world. The
word detective had not been made until three years before Arthur Conan
Doyle was born. Before Arthur Conan Doyle people used to read
criminals confessions. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh on 22
May 1859. His parents were Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyle. He
was one of ten children and only seven of these survived. Charles
Altamont Doyle was a civil servant and Mary Doyle ran a boarding
house. In 1874 Arthur Conan Doyle passed his university matriculation
exam. During the summer of 1878 he worked as a doctor in general
practise. In 1879 Arthur Conan Doyle sold his first short story to
Chambers' journal. Arthur received his masters in Biology in 1881. In
1883, a short story entitled "Habakuk Jephson's statement" was
published. Arthur received a M.D in 1885. Arthur started to write
adventure stories to gain extra money. He became a doctor in 1887. His
first Sherlock Holmes book came out in 1887. The character was based
on Edgar Allan Poe's detective C. Auguste Dupin and Eugene Francois
Vidoq. By 1891 he had become a full time writer. In 1892 the first
collection of Sherlock Holmes stories where published. In 1917 the
last Sherlock Holmes story was published. By 1920 Arthur was one of
the highest paid writer in London. On July 7, 1930 Arthur Conan Doyle
died from heart disease.
Sherlock Holmes was not a real person but when Arthur Conan Doyle
wrote about him he based him on a man called Dr Joseph Bell. This man
shared many qualities with Sherlock Holmes. Although Sherlock Holmes
was based on a dear friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, the sidekick to
Sherlock Holmes Dr Watson was based on himself. 'The events in
question occurred in the early days of my association with Holmes,
when we were sharing rooms as bachelors in Backer Street." This quote
from The Speckled Band helps us to see that Arthur Conan Doyle, in the
The story was told to him by the main subject, his gym teacher. His teacher told the story to his health class one day as a firsthand account, although he never specified when it occurred. This is the version told to me:
The Appeal of Arthur Conan Doyle's Stories Over 120 years ago the lived a fictional character called "Sherlock Holmes", who lived at 221B, Baker Street. Arthur Conan-Doyle created the character in 1887 and the stories are still popular today. In 1887 Doyle was going to stop writing the stories but he got death threats telling him to keep Holmes alive, he did what they asked. I am going to examine and write about three stories: "The Speckled Band" "Silver Blaze" "The Cardboard Box" "The Speckled Band" is a murder story set in the countryside and is about a man who kills his step-daughter because of the money she will inherit on her marriage.
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To what extent do the detective fiction stories looked at imitate The Murders in the Rue Morgue in terms of the character and the creation of tension? Question: To what extent do the detective fiction stories looked at imitate 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' in terms of the character and the creation of tension? This essay will explain, discuss and examine the effects of Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' had on other authors writing detective stories during the 19th century. ' The Murders in the Rue Morgue' was a new kind of story and Edgar Allen Poe had many authors imitate him.
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Next was college he attended Princeton for a semester but left because of the his Addison’s disease. He enrolled to London School of Economics but he never went. The final College was Harvard. He enrolled in the fall of 1936. This time in school he was know as a ladies man. He was good at swimming and golf. But during a football practice he ruptured a spinal disk. When he was in the hospital he wrote a book called “Profiles in courage”. The book won the Pulitzer Prize award in 1937.
A virtuoso of suspense and horror, Edgar Allan Poe is known for his Gothic writing style. His style is created through his use of punctuation, sentence structure, word choice, tone, and figurative language. Punctuation-wise; dashes, exclamation marks, semicolons, and commas are a favorite of Poe. His sentences vary greatly; their structures are influenced by punctuation. Much of his word choice set the tone of his works. Figurative language colors his writings with description. Such is observed in the similarities between two of his most well-known short stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”
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In both the movie and the book, many characters have different personality traits as well as being portrayed in a different light. The short stories of Sherlock Holmes and the movie, starring Robert Downey Jr., have done just that. The way these entities depict Holmes seems to be quite different. It’s amazing to see how someone can reveal an absolutely different side of Holmes.
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The book that got everything started for Conan Doyle, and brought him fame world wide