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
Starsky and Hutch
Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully
This is what you need in order to prove you were not at the scene of a crime when it took place.
a) a good friend
b) a clue
c) an alibi
an alibi
The c-----t is the person who is responsible for a crime.
culprit
He is a sidekick for Sherlock Homes
Dr. Watson
He is the author of The Hounds of the Baskervilles and other Sherlock Holmes stories.
Sir 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 (like a mouse, for example).
The Mousetrap
A character's reason for committing a crime.
a) a culprit
b) a motive
c) a murder weapon
a motive
Another word for the noun "detective".
a) a sleuth
b) a sidekick
c) a bullet
a sleuth
Miss Marple is a popular female sleuth created by author Agatha Christie in the 1920s. What does "sleuth" mean?
a) detective? b) policewoman? c) burglar?
a) detective
Where was Edgar Allen Poe from?
America
Where was the fictional detective Hercule Poirot from?
Belgium
This is a slang term for detective fiction. It begins with "W".
"Whodunnit"
The word for: A piece of evidence that may help you solve the crime.
a clue
Complete the title of this book:
__________ on the Orient Express
Murder
He was the creator of the modern-day detective story genre (in the 19th century).
Edgar Allen Poe
What decade was the golden age of the detective story?
1930s
1950s
1980s
1930s
This is a false clue, designed to mislead you.
a) a red herring
b) a smoking gun
c) a bloody knife
A red herring
This is an important discovery in a case, which means that the detective is one step closer to solving it.
a) a fingerprint
b) a mousetrap
c) a breakthrough
a breakthrough
Which fictional Belgian detective relied on his “little grey cells” to solve crimes?
Hercule Poirot
Who was the first "scientific" detective?
a) Dr Jekyll
b) Sherlock Holmes
c) Dana Scully, from the X-Files
Sherlock Holmes; he was also a physician.
What are the four main genres of literature?
poetry? horror? drama? romance? fiction? science fiction? detective novels? non fiction? philosophy? comedy?
Poetry, drama, fiction, non fiction
If you "unravel the case" what have you done?
You have solved it!
An idea based on a feeling rather than the facts.
A hunch / an intuition