Characters
Crime fiction characters often have this personality trait?
What is curiosity?
Most crime stories follow this pattern.
home-out-home?
This kind of small, peaceful town is often used as a crime fiction setting to create contrast with the horror of the crime.
What is an idyllic place?
This detective used logic to solve crimes and said, "When you have ruled out the impossible, whatever is left, no matter how strange, must be the truth.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
How many crime fiction books were sold in the UK
These characters often had this kind of childhood.
What is troubled or builled?
Readers want to know this in many crime stories.
"Who did it?"
Writers often choose these large, dynamic environments like London or New York to reflect societal contrasts and issues.
Answer: What are big cities?
This is how Sherlock Holmes solves crimes by paying close attention to details.
What is deduction?
How many % of reades in this gerne are woman?
80% of the readers of the genre are wornen
Main characters in crime fiction are often this type of person
What is a loner?
Crime stories usually have this type of plot.
What is a complicated plot?
Writers make places feel real by describing how they look, sound, smell, and how they do this during the story
What is change?
In detective stories, readers want to figure out this.
What is the crime?
who wrote this book? "In Talking about Detective Fiction" (2009)
crime writer P.D. James states
The loner is often very ____
Intelligent
This makes the story go faster.
What is a push?
In this type of mystery, the crime happens in a room or area no one can get in or out of.
What are locked room mysteries?
In some modern crime stories focus more on this part of the characters, not just the crime.
What is psychology?
Why do people watch crime
• Predictability and meaningfulness
• A forum for discussions about societal and existential issues
• Escapisrn
• Entertainment
This detective is a good example of a smart, lonely person.
Who is Miss Marple?
A character with this can figure things out quickly.
What is a sixth sense?
Some settings show problems in society, like in The Wire, which talks about crime, schools, and the police.
Answer: What is a symbolic setting?
This TV show (2006–2013) is about a killer hiding his true identity.
What is Dexter?
What even is crime fiction
Crime fiction is fiction that involves crimes, their detection, crirninals and their motives