Course: Classic Detective Fiction

In the opening chapter of the novel, we also learn about another interest of Sherlock Holmes, namely forensics – the scientific discipline that deals with gathering and preserving evidence from …

Athelney Jones exemplifies the crime fiction trope of the bumbling police officer, and in this sense he features in the novel as a way of making Holmes looker smarter and …

In this video, I highlight a number of key traits that stand out in the evolution of the crime fiction genre. It’s quite likely that you’ve already noticed some of …