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Setting

Characters

Sub-genres

  • detective
  • sidekick
  • police
  • victim
  • suspects
  • murderer

The setting is essential to the text. It holds the plot together and creates the atmosphere. It provides necessary clues.

A Study in Scarlet

  • London, late 1800s
  • Lauriston Gardens, number 3
  • dirty windows, hazy/uncertain light
  • dull grey tinge, intensified by dust

The Valley of Fear

  • London early 1900s
  • Manor House of Birlstone
  • Only approach is over drawbridge

Categorized by:

  • time periods
  • writing styles

6 different sub-genres:

  • Early Crime Fiction
  • The Golden Age
  • The Intuitionists
  • The Realists
  • Hard-boiled
  • Contemporary Crime Fiction

  • Both texts are Early Crime Fiction

Early Crime Fiction

  • Sleuth bearing great intelligence
  • based on analytical power
  • the protagonist thinks little of police

The Crime

Essential to crime fiction and is usually horrific as it makes tracking down the murderer more desirable. The crime often takes place somewhere expected to be safe.

The Valley of Fear

  • man lay on his back, outstretched limbs in the center of the room
  • shotgun lay across his chest
  • head almost blown to pieces

A Study in Scarlet

  • grim motionless figure stretched upon the broads
  • sightless eyes staring at the ceiling
  • victim - man age 43/44, broad shouldered, curly black hair, stubby beard
  • expression of horror on his face

Clues

May be physical evidence, character motivation, tendency or contextual details.

Bibliography

The Valley of Fear:

  • card on the ground - V.V. -341
  • a hammer
  • mud on the floor in the corner
  • mark on the mans forearm
  • missing wedding ring
  • open window
  • blood on the window sill
  • the shotgun

A Study in Scarlet:

  • women's wedding ring
  • pills
  • drunk man at the gate of the house the crime took place
  • cab had made 2 ruts, impression deeper due to the rain that night, makes made that night horse hoofs, 3 old 1 new
  • 'RACHE' written on wall
  • footprints in the yard

Gradesaver.com, 2014. A Study in Scarlet Summary | GradeSaver. [online] Available at: <http://www.gradesaver.com/a-study-in-scarlet/study-guide/short-summary/> [Accessed 18 Aug. 2014].

Humanities360.com, 2014. Plot Summary Sherlock Holmes the Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Stephanie D Hall | Humanities 360. [online] Available at: <http://www.humanities360.com/index.php/plot-summary-sherlock-holmes-the-valley-of-fear-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle-2-41803/> [Accessed 18 Aug. 2014].

What is Crime Fiction?

  • solving of a crime - usually a murder
  • questions what it is to be human
  • raise questions about identity
  • main feature is the plot
  • reflects society when it was written

Chosen texts

Doyle, A. and Doyle, A., 1986. A study in scarlet ; The hound of the Baskervilles. 1st ed. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association.

Doyle, A. and Edwards, O., 1994. The valley of fear. 1st ed. Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press.

Anon, 2014. [online] Available at: <http://starkey-senglishextension.webnode.com/news/conventions-of-crime-fiction/> [Accessed 19 Aug. 2014].

Heavymetaltime.webs.com, 2014. |. [online] Available at: <http://heavymetaltime.webs.com/thecrimefictiongenre.htm> [Accessed 20 Aug. 2014].

Sites.google.com, 2014. Characters - English Enrichment Crime Fiction. [online] Available at: <http://sites.google.com/site/englishenrichmentcrimefiction/conventions/characters> [Accessed 20 Aug. 2014].

  • 'A Study in Scarlet' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1886
  • 'The Valley of Fear' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1914

Summary Overview

1. A Study in Scarlet

2. The Valley of Fear

Conventions of Crime Fiction

By: Cassie Agerbeek

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