Comparing Conan doyle's "The Speckled band" and the film "Let him Have it"

In the Crime Story Let Him Have It a boy called Derek Bentley who suffers brain damage and epilepsy in the Blitz.  From then on he never usually went out and when a younger boy Christopher Craig befriends him. Derek Bentley follows him everywhere and one night when Christopher Craig takes him on top of a roof of a confectioner. Which they were going to rob but the police came in time. Derek got arrested but Christopher Craig had a gun and when Derek shouted “Let Him Have It” Christopher shot the police officer in the shoulder. As Derek was taken away under-arrest Christopher shot a Police officer in the Head. Derek was sentenced to death. Unlike the Speckled band this was non-fictional and in the third person. Equally they both involved a crime and consequently creating another similarity.

The Main characters in each of the two stories is Sherlock Holmes a very smart and secretive and on the other hand there is Derek Bentley a young boy who is not very intelligent at all and really has nothing to hide. Christopher is quite similar to Dr. John Watson common as they both have guns and like them but on the contrary Christopher Craig is a criminal and Dr. John Watson fights crime which is quite the opposite. The author of The Speckled Band always had portrayed Sherlock as quite secretive and mysterious which makes a good character for the Mystery genre. However, Derek is a very normal person apart from his epilepsy and brain damage but the Director portrays Derek a nice person but always is mixed in with the wrong crowd as he was easily led due to his lack of intelligence.

 Let him Have It was set in 1940-50 and alternatively The Speckled Band is set in 1883 a big difference. Since in 1940-50s they were many guns because of the war and also after the war there was still rationing so people did not have much food. On the other hand in 1883 people did not have guns really and murders were all too common there was also a not as good justice system in 1940-50s , However the justice in the Derek Bentley case was totally unfair.

The Author of the speckled band was a physician really but as his practice which he opened was not doing very well he started to write Sherlock Holmes.  The opposite of the director of Let Him have as he always wanted to be involved in films and the industry which surrounds it.

I Conclude that the two genres of Crime and Mystery ultimately are like Oranges and Lemons they both have similarities and differences. Finally Crime can be laid out differently to a Mystery but despite this can be laid out quite similarly. As well as this they can be Non-Fiction and Fiction. Nevertheless Mystery is usually Fiction and is mostly Non- Fiction and the other one Fictional. Despite all this their characters and their main base of the story usually involve a good side and a bad side. It would seem that these tow genres are very similar but infact if you go look at the stories properly you can understand how they are more different then you think.