Crime in fiction

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  • The tell tale heart - Edgar Allan Poe

    Focus on the murder, traditional structure: beginning-middle-end, the police is stupid, nothing is left out, gothic

  • The Murder at the Towers - E.V. Knox

    The detective is in focus. He is eccentric and clever. He helps the police when a crime is too difficult to solve. Limitted knowledge.

  • Lamb to the Slaughter - Rolad Dahl

    The police is stupid, beginning-middle-end, murder weapon is very important, both women and men can be killers = equality.

  • Graveyard Shift - James M. Reasoner

    Hardboiled crime, twist = the narrator is the murder, violent, focus on the murder - not the investegation, american genre, the narrator is a loner in a corrupt society

  • Don't you hate having two Heads - Christine Poulson

    Twist = the woman is the murder, open ending, both women and men can be killers = equality.