Both the Speckled Band and lamb to the slaughter are identified as murder mysteries compare the two stories and say how each one works as a murder mystery. Which one do you find more effective and why?

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Speckled Band Both the Speckled Band and lamb to the slaughter are identified as murder mysteries compare the two stories and say how each one works as a murder mystery. Which one you find it more effective and why?Sir Arthur Connon Doyle is the author of ' the Speckled Band' it is one of the books from the Sherlock Holmes series and the one I'm going to investigate.The story is read in a second person point of view it is read by Dr Watson who is also Holmes sidekick. Both Holmes and Watson a very clever. Holmes is younger than Watson but Holmes plays the lead role of two men. Holmes doesn't solve cases for the money; he will only do cases that intrigue him. It's a bit like a hobby to him. The 'Speckled Band' is written in speech of the time the Speckled Band was written. They use phrases and words like been knocked up by Watson in the morning, 'and in admiring the rapid deductions' and 'what did you gather from this allusion to the band a Speckled Band'. The language of that time seemed to be much more formal and much less
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slang was used. Holmes and Watson speaks very typically English and posh. Using a language like this gives the book the atmosphere of that time. In lamb to the slaughter the use present-day modern language so automatically get the impression that is written in present day modern and now. At first you think of a couple as an average normal family but his wife turns out to be a Psycho. She seemed to have been corrupted by a routine, she loved life how it was. So when she changed just cracked, in a story she seems to be ignoring her ...

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