What makes a good mystery story

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Sanah Yunis 11Y

Explain What Makes A Good Mystery Story Based On Your Understanding Of ‘The Red Room’ By H.G Wells, ‘The Speckled Band’ By Arthur Conan Doyle And ‘The Signalman’ By Charles Dickens.

In this essay I will be explaining what makes a good mystery story. I will do this by analysing and commenting on three stories; ‘The Red Room’ by H.G Wells, ‘The Speckled Band’ by Arthur Conan Doyle And ‘The Signalman’ by Charles Dickens.

The three stories have a few things in common; they were written at the same period of time, therefore follow the same type of writing style, they are mystery stories and as in most mystery stories the mystery is solved at the end. The fact that the reader is supposed to be caught up in the stories and made to read on makes it important that tension and suspense are built up properly. For each of these stories I will explain how mystery and suspense is created with the use of language, characters and setting.

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‘The Red Room’ by H.G Wells is a great story, some of the main reasons for why this is, is because of the vocabulary and words the author has used and also the setting that the story is created in. the author uses gothic language, giving the story more suspense; he also sets the story in a haunted setting which builds up tension. The story was written by H.G Wells, between the turn of the 20th century. H.G Wells was an English author who was most famous for his science fiction romances.

‘The Red Room’, immediately grasps the attention ...

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