'The speckled band' the story was written in the 1890's the author was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The other story which we will be comparing with this one is 'Lamb to the slaughter' this was written in the 1950's by Roald Dahl.

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I will be comparing and analysing the stories with there detective genre. The story’s which we are comparing are ‘The speckled band’ the story was written in the 1890’s the author was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The other story which we will be comparing with this one is ‘Lamb to the slaughter’ this was written in the 1950’s by Roald Dahl.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his story’s in the days where Jack the Ripper was loose in London, at this time there was no better contrast then that of the great Sherlock Holmes and the dismal attempts of the police in real life. Sherlock Holmes was based on a Dr Joseph Bell who was not only a surgeon he was a criminal psychologist and lecturer at Edinburgh infirmary. Bell was a lot like Holmes as they both were remarkably cool in any situation plus their dexterity of deduction based on close observation. A Sherlock Holmes story is also always told by his small fervent companion Dr, Watson who is drawn into the mysteries with ambitious theories of his own of the result of a murder or robbery which he gets himself involved with.

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Roald Dahl began to write in 1942 in Washington as assistant Air Attaché, This was after being involved in world war two he enlisted for the RAF at Nairobi, he was then severely wounded after joining a fighter squadron in Libya, but later he was a fighter pilot in Greece and Syria as the war ended he was a Wing commander. When he began to write he only wrote short stories all of his books have been translated all over the world and have become best sellers all over the world. Some of his more well known books are ...

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