In his short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses certain conventions expected of the detective genre to bring the story an exciting dnouement

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In his short story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses certain conventions expected of the detective genre to bring the story an exciting dénouement. Discuss and consider the moral twist in the tale of the story.

In analyzing “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” and in the view of the background to different detective genre stories it becomes clear that generic conventions are attached to them. This is one of many excellent detective stories written. It stands out making the audience excited and urged to carry on reading. This essay will analyse the conventions and moral twist of the story.

In the detective story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” the writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses twins in the story. Quoted ‘My sister Julia and I were twins”. This was one of the many conventions that were broken. This was carefully analyzed by the writer. The writer analyzes really well by not confusing the audience. This does not confuse the reader in any way since the write has already told the audience that one of the twins are already dead.

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An early twentieth century writer and critic, Knox, came up with a certain set of rules which he suggested any writer of detective fiction should follow. The reason he has done this is to make the story intriguing easy to understand and also to include the audience it in. For example Knox’s first rule which is the criminal must be introduced early, not just brought in at the end. This rule has not been defied in anyway. The criminal Dr Roylott was introduced into the story early. The writer Doyle has followed this rule and has not gone ...

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