The way the characters act are a good example of how Conan Doyle creates excitement as Mr Hosmer Angel is a very shy man who does not want to be seen as he wears dark glasses and he talks on a very soft voice, “he would rather walk with me in the evening.” This is because Mr Angel does not want to be seen with Miss Sutherland so this creates excitement as the reader gets the feeling that there is something not quite right with Mr Angel and that he is secretive about some thing this will start to make the reader excited as they know something big is going to happen this is also a good way of using the suspense of the story to create the excitement.
Conan Doyle creates a fair amount of excitement in “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”. Conan Doyle creates this excitement by using the argument between the father and son even though a father son relationship is hard to destroy. Seeing as he uses the strange argument between father and son “having a violent quarrel” this makes the reader wonder why the father and son are arguing about, this creates tension for the reader as it gives them topic to think about this creates excitement as the reader is becoming involved with the story. This is because in Victorian Britain violent quarrels between father and son would not have been common things, this is because the Victorians have been classed as the most respectable and caring people in the history of Britain and the fact that there were large families.
The lead form the violent quarrel leads to further events; this creates excitement because a son would not get to a point where he could kill his father as it would be as if he was destroying himself. This excitement is where the son found his father dead, the son heard the call of “cooee” to which his son turns round to see his father dead on the floor, a she goes to his father he mentions something about “a rat” this was all that he caught of his fathers last words but he could have misheard what his father said, this sudden turn from the argument and the son walking away to the father being killed creates excitement as the reader would expect the son to have killed the father but the last words get the reader wandering about how the father died, and what is this rat.
Conan Doyle creates excitement for the reader a tension build up as Holmes is about to reveal the murderer. The reader is excited as Holmes is about to unveil who committed the murder and he is doing this based purely on the last words of the old man “a rat”. There is a large amount of tension as holes is about to say who committed the murder and there is a sudden burst form Holmes who reveals that the murderer was from “Ballarat” .Ballarat is the name of an Australian gang and that the call of “cooee” was a native Australian call. This creates the element of excitement as the murderer is revealed. And the Murder was committed by “Black Jack of Ballarat”.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creates an element of mystery in “5 orange pips” when it is revealed that 5 orange pips have been sent to Elias Openshaw who lived in Horsham. The orange pips arrived in an envelope with a foreign stamp on it, “5little dried orange pips” the reader does not know what these orange pips are about so this creates a moderate amount of excitement for the reader as they wander what these orange pips are about.
Excitement is created when the reader finds out about the room that John Openshaw is not allowed into even though he has the freedom of the house, this is strange as the uncle locked himself inside the room when he went in and he would be sat in there with old boxes and papers, “he would never leave his room” this room must have something in it that Elias does not want John to see, this creates excitement as the reader knows that something is going to happen but what!
There is a reoccurrence about this K.K.K which has been found on the envelopes containing the orange pips, also this K.K.K has appeared on the brass box in which the paper were burnt by Elias Openshaw just before his accidental death. “the fire burning brightly … beside it” this box was found in the room that no one was allowed in. this creates excitement as the reader has no idea about what all these burnt papers are and what this K.K.K is all about.
Excitement is created when the Openshaw family die of accidental deaths which Sherlock Holmes does not seem to think that these deaths are accidental after all. ”the deaths of my relations were accidents”. This excitement is created when the reader becomes to wander if the deaths are accidental if it has happened to the same family which have received the orange pips.
In “the man with the twisted lip” the story offers excitement when the reader finds out about how rich Neville St Clair is, and how he spends his money buying a Villa,”he took a large villa” this shows how rich he was and that he had money to throw around which was uncommon in those days, this created excitement for the reader as for someone to be that rich was very unheard of in Victorian Britain.
When the reader finally finds out that Neville St Clair was also the beggar and when he had all that money why would he want to pretend to be a beggar this is how the excitement is created in the finale of the story,”it is indeed the missing man”.
When the reader reads the story “Speckled Band” there is a great amount of excitement as red herrings throw the reader of the trail of what has happened, especially when Holmes and Watson are inspecting the house of Dr Grimesby Roylott as he had possible clues like the safe that is supposed to be full of papers, ”What’s in here…business papers” this is what she thinks is in the safe but that is not the case this creates excitements as the reader thinks that the safe plays not part in the mystery.
The Sherlock Holmes stories have been written to give the optimum amount of excitement for the reader, Conan Doyle has used red herrings to throw the reader of the final conclusion and this cerates excitement as the reader is miss led, the excitement is created by the happenings in the stories such as reoccurrences and happenings which can’t be explained as this is the best way for Conan Doyle to create the excitement. Conan Doyle makes his detective stories different to other writers as he writes the stories to create the maximum amount of excitement fort he reader. The Victoria period creates the excitement as the reader would not have been able to relate to life in the Victorian times.