Feel like Dancing
The narrator of "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"
Who is Dr. Watson?
He is the detective in "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest"
Who is Hercule Poirot?
The name of the detective in "The Maltese Falcon"
Who is Sam Spade?
He is the main character of "Memento"
Who is Leonard Shelby?
According to Vane Dine's 1st rule for writing classic detective fiction, the reader must have equal opportunity with this person to solve the murder
Who is the detective?
The female victim in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" was from this country
What is USA?
The author of "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest"
Who is Agatha Christie?
The very warm setting throughout most of the second chapter of "The Big Sleep"
What is a greenhouse?
"The Girl on the Train" has this type of narration
What is 1st person narration?
According to Van Dine's 3rd rule for writing classic detective fiction, the detective must never have this
What is a love interest?
The genre of "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" belongs to this category of detective fiction
What is classic detective fiction?
What is a lemon?
The author of "The Maltese Falcon"
Who is Dashiell Hammett?
The main character from "The Girl on the Train" suffers from this type of alcohol-related affliction
What is a blackout?
Ted Gioia's 6th meme regarding the condition of the detective in postmodern detective fiction that fits the detectives in both "The Girl on the Train" and " Memento"
What is a wounded investigator/detective?
The author of "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"
Who is Arthur Conan Doyle?
The name of the murder victim in "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest"
Who is Mr. Clayton (Arnold)?
Film adaptations of hardboiled detective fiction is referred to with this French expression
What is Film Noir?
The author of "The Girl on the Train"
Who is Paula Hawkins?
According to Van Dine's 11th rule for writing classic detective fiction, the culprit must never turn out to have this profession
What is a servant?
"The Adventure of the Dancing Men" contains this very popular and often-used feature in which the nature of the crime scene distinctly limits the number of possible solutions to the mystery
What is a locked room-mystery?
The name of the missing sidekick in /"The Mystery of the Spanish Chest" that our detective misses deeply
Who is Hastings (Captain, Arthur)?
The actor that played the detective in the film adaptations of both "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Big Sleep"
Who is Humphrey Bogart?
The scenes from "Memento" that are shot in black and white are shown in this type of order
What is chronological?
According to Ted Gioia's 8th and final meme for postmodern detective fiction, sometimes a postmodern mystery does not even have this element in it
What is a mystery?