Conventions Of Crime Fiction
The suspect pool in crime fiction is known as what?
Closed suspect pool or Closed pool of suspects
A popular literary genre that fictionalises crimes, focusing on their detection, the perpetrators, and their motives. It typically features a central mystery, often murder, solved by a protagonist, such as a detective, police officer, or amateur sleuth.
Crime Fiction
A legal defense and proof that a suspect was elsewhere when a crime was committed
Alibi
A fictional character appearing in several mystery book series, movies, video games, and TV shows as a teenage amateur sleuth.
Nancy Drew
A consulting detective and his doctor partner solve modern crimes in London from 221B Baker Street.
Sherlock
The story could go on forever (in theory) without what?
A ticking clock
A type of crime story where a crime, usually a murder, appears impossible, as it takes place in a sealed space with no clear way for the criminal to enter or escape. The focus is on careful clues, logical thinking, and puzzling out how the crime could have been committed.
A storyteller whose credibility is compromised, misleading the reader
Unreliable Narrator
A recurring fictional Belgian detective created by the English writer Agatha Christie.
Hercule Poirot
This US series focuses on a special FBI team that profiles serial killers by analysing behaviour patterns.
Criminal Minds
A ___________ is the specific thing that the antagonist is trying to get, accomplish, or achieve throughout the story.
Macguffin
A sub-genre of crime and mystery fiction where a professional or amateur sleuth investigates a significant crime, most commonly murder, to solve it
Detective Fiction
A feeling of excited anticipation, anxiety, or uncertainty about the outcome of events in a narrative.
Suspense
A fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sherlock Holmes
This classic murder mystery game has players determine who committed the crime, with what weapon, and in which room.
Cluedo
They can also provide interpersonal conflict in the moments when the protagonist is not actively engaged in solving the crime.
Who is they?
A sidekick
Characterised by amateur sleuths, charming small-town settings, and a lack of explicit violence, or profanity.
Cosy Mystery
The final scene where the mystery is explained and solved.
Denouement
An elderly, white-haired spinster living in the quiet English village of St. Mary Mead, serving as an unlikely amateur detective in Agatha Christie's novels
This classic detective novel features Hercule Poirot solving a murder on a snowbound train.
Murder on the Orient Express
The antagonist in a crime story is usually very intelligent, crafty, and careful. Because of this, it often feels like the antagonist is one step ahead of the protagonist the entire time. But, by the end, they are eventually brought to justice.
There’s an equally smart or crafty antagonist who seems to be a step ahead of the protagonist the whole time.
A tough, cynical, and unsentimental style of American crime fiction (emerging in the 1920s) that prioritises realistic, gritty urban settings, violent action, and flawed protagonists over puzzle-solving
Hard-Boiled
Something that misleads, distracts, or diverts attention away from a relevant or important question, topic, or issue.
Red Herring
Known as a "gentleman sleuth," he is polite yet sharp, employing methodical, theatrical deduction techniques to solve complex murders while wearing flamboyant, tailored three-piece suits
Benoit Blanc
This long-running British series follows police detectives solving murder cases in the rural village of Midsomer.
Midsomer Murders