Crime fiction through time

By Mia Bennetzen
  • The tell-tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe

    The tell-tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe

    First real crime fiction.
    I-speaker.
    Gothic Fiction.
    A man thinks he is same even though he is plannig a murder of an old man with an evil eye. After having killed the old man, he hides the corpse, but he reveals himself in the end when the police come because of a suspicious shriek.
    Analysis with the freudian egg.

  • The murder at the towers

    Focus on 'the detective'.
    There is a twist.
    The detective is eccentric.

  • Lamb to the slaughter

    Focus on suspence and gender roles.
    Focus on distubution of knowledge.
    A female killer.

  • The Graveyard Shift

    Hard-boiled crime fiction.
    Focus is on the murder and the murderer not the investigation.
    It is the murderers point of view.
    Twist: The protagonist is the murderer.

  • Don't you hate having two heads?

    There is a Twist.
    It is a female killer.
    There is a distrubution of knowledge.
    New tendency: Women are dangerous too.