English Assignment Mizanur Rahman 231
How does Sir Conan Doyle Use Tension To Create A Classic Detective Story?
In this assignment I will analyse the classic Sherlock Holmes detective story the “Speckled Band” and find out how sir Conan Doyle takes a basic idea from all detective stories, a murder and still create a classic story.
First off a detective story needs a murder and in this case it was the death of Sarah stoner that starts the story off, but no death in any detective story would be complete without a mysterious death and the way Sarah died was a mystery. And I think that most detective stories use mysterious deaths because this makes the story more interesting and more intriguing because if the death was straight forward then the reader might be able to predict the ending of the story before actually reading the end of the story.