Characters
This character determines that an ape is a murderer.
August Dupin
The defining feature of the classical detective is his _________.
Mind [reasoning ability, genius, logic]
Probably the best-known twentieth-century "girl sleuth."
Nancy Drew.
Hard-boiled detective stories are typically located in _______ settings.
urban
The central concern of feminist crime fiction.
violence against women.
This character engages in detective work to bring justice to her dead friend.
Anne Rodway.
The classical detective is usually an _________ who does not work for the police.
amateur
Hard-boiled female detectives tend to identify with ________.
Hard-boiled detective fiction first appears in this type of publication.
pulp magazines of the 1920s.
Golden age feminist crime fiction often features an older _________ sleuth.
spinster
This character is haunted by her sister's untimely death.
Helen Stoner.
The classical detective primarily uses ________ and ________ to solve mysteries.
[visual] observation and reason [or logic or analysis]
Stories of female detectives may have their roots in this eighteenth-century form of popular novels.
Gothic novels.
The hard-boiled detective is stranded between _______ and the criminal underworld.
legal authority
The name of this form of detective fiction signifies that the hero had to "toughen up" to survive in an evil world.
hard-boiled detective fiction.
This character poisons her employer's wife.
Gladys Linch.
Classical detective fiction makes the mental labor of this social group heroic.
white-collar professionals [academics, intellectuals, civil servants]
Nineteenth-century female detectives might maintain the moral codes of their time, but they challenged their society's _________.
gender expectations.
Hard-boiled detective fiction appeals to an audience of this social class and race.
white, working class
The "Murders in the Rue Morgue" is considered this type of mystery.
locked-room mystery
This character murders his brother with a hammer.
Wilfred Bohun.
In classical detective fiction, women sleuths often succeed through ______.
intuition [common sense]
A prevalent element in twenty-first century feminist detective fiction that is not seen in earlier detective fiction.
issues surrounding motherhood.
Raymond Chandler's detectives are a reimagination of this heroic figure.
knight
This term refers to the idea that detective fiction should provide readers with sufficient information to solve the crime together with the detective.
"fair play" rule