Detective Stories
Complete the word
_ _ S _ E R _
mystery
Who is it? Fill in the blanks
A _ A _ _ A. _ H _ _ S T_ E
Agatha Christie
Can you name any famous detective duo?
Holmes and Watson
This person can prove that someone was not at the scene of a crime when it took place.
alibi
This C, is a person who is responsible for a crime.
culprit
sidekick for Sherlock Homes
Watson
Author of the Hounds of the Baskervilles and Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
This item is the name of an Agatha Christie play and also the name of something used in the home to catch rodents..
The Mousetrap
A characters' reason for committing the crime
motive
Another word for the noun detective
sleuth
A popular female sleuth created by author Agatha Christie in the 1920s,
Miss Marple
Where was Edgar Allen Poe from?
America
Where was the fictional detective Hercule Poirot, from?
Belgium
Slang term for detective fiction. Begins with W
" whodunnit"
The word for : A piece of evidence that may hint to help you solve the crime
clue
Fill in the blank
__________ on the Orient Express
Murder
The creator of the modern-day detective story genre
Edgar Allen Poe
What decade was the golden age of the detective story?
1930s
1950s
1980s
1930s
Designed to mislead you
red herring
This is an important discovery in a case which means that the detective is one step closer to solving it.
breakthrough
Which fictional detective relied on his “little grey cells” to solve crimes?
Hercule Poirot
Who was the first "scientific " detective?
Sherlock Holmes; he was also a physician
What are the four main genres of literature?
Poetry, drama, fiction, non fiction
If you 'unravel the case' what have you done?.
solved it!
An idea based on a feeling rather than the facts.
A hunch