The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes were set and written in Victorian England by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Tony Thatcher        Sherlock Holmes Coursework        10BM        

SHERLOCK HOLMES COURSEWORK

All typical detective stories have features in common. They all contain a detective, also the stories contain a crime and a criminal, also in typical detective stories the criminal usually has a motive. Another detail in a murder story is: the detective always begins an investigation and this leads to the discovery of the criminal.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes were set and written in Victorian England by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.                                                        The Hound of the Baskervilles is about a big black vicious hound that is haunting the Baskerville Family and after the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville; the legend of the hound was revived. A man goes to tell Holmes and Watson. Holmes and Watson take up the case.  

The Speckled Band is about a woman who tells Holmes that her sister has died. The woman thinks it’s her stepfather, Dr Roylott. She believes that he has killed her for her inheritance

The Man With The Twisted Lip is about a woman who sees her husband in a window of an opium den and goes in to see him but he isn’t there. She asks Holmes to investigate.

Sherlock Holmes stories are unusual in that they are not written from the detective’s point of view. It is written from Dr Watson’s point of view. This means that the reader knows the events as they are happening and doesn’t know what the detective is going to do next. This enhances the murder mystery quality because the reader wants to know what happens next and it builds suspense with the reader

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Typical Sherlock Holmes crime settings are normally dark, damp and gloomy places. These are normally places such as dark alleyways and streets. Also big stately homes made to look like eerie haunted places. Another setting is out on the moors in Hound of the Baskervilles, the moors are foggy and it is usually raining.

The Manor House settings used in the Hound of the Baskervilles and The Speckled Band contain large portraits on the walls of large old rooms. They also contain old wooden doors that creak as they open and the doors lead into large open ...

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