How does Conan Doyle create excitement for the readers of his detective stories?

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How does Conan Doyle create excitement for the readers of his detective stories?

Readers of the Sherlock Holmes stories are captured by the excitement which is produced when Holmes and Watson foil the evil masterminded plans of criminals. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creates all this excitements by using Holmes’ and Dr Watson’s expertise in their field, as this is typical in the detective genre.

An obvious place to start looking for this excitement is reading “Case of Identity”. Excitement in this story is used to keep the reader interested. The excitement is created by Mary Sutherland getting such a large amount of money being left her as inheritance as that was a lot of money in the time that Conan Doyle wrote the story. The amount of money Miss Mary Sutherland gets from her inheritance left to her by her Uncle Ned is £2,500 but she can only touch the interest which stands at four and a half percent a year, “so large a sum as a hundred a year.” This was a lot of money in the Victorian times for a single person this creates excitement as very few people had that amount of income without doing anything.

 Conan Doyle uses a strange happening to create excitement as the reader starts to think about the possibilities about what has happened a good example of this is when Miss Sutherlands fiancé Mr Hosmer Angel disappears from the cab on the day of the wedding, “we waited for him to step out, but he never did.” It is not possible for a man to disappear from the face of the earth when people saw him get into the cab. This creates excitements for the reader as they start to guess what has happened to Mr Angel.

Clues play the biggest part in the excitement in this story as the reader is able to figure out the culprit as the clues only point to one person, Mr Angel does not have an address as he sleeps on the premises of his work, the address of Mr Angels place of work is also unknown apart from the fact that it is in “Leadenhall street. This meant all his letters were sent to the Leadenhall post office “he slept on the premises” this is strange as he has no where to live and he doesn’t want the letters to be sent to him at work. This excites the reader as the reader has to think about why he doesn’t want her to know where he lives.

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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 ...

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