English 240

Remember that your answers must be detailed, concrete, specific. For the first part of the discussion question, you may need to look up the details of the sub-genre online. For the seccond part of your discussion, you will want to quote and document passages and/or describe specific scenes of the readings and/or films you are going to use as examples.

For this week's discussion, please answer the questions below:

The mystery/detective genre has a number of very popular sub-genres. Look up and discuss the elements/characteristics of any one of them and cite some examples from a novel, a short story, or a film (or films) to illustrate your discussion. Here are a few of the more popular sub-genres:

cypher or code mysteries (you may not use "The Advernture of the Dancing Men" for this; you need to find another work; would some of Dan Brown's stories fit here, I wonder?)
locked room mysteries
cozy mysteries (English country house mysteries fit into this category; you'll find a lot of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers and even The Cat Who... books here)
amateur detective stories
hardboiled detective stories
police procedurals
forensics mysteries
most mysteries are whodunit stories, but one variation is the whydunit

* Note: some stories/movies bridge two or more categories; for example, Agatha Christies's Murder on the Orient Express is a cozy mystery, but it is also something of a locked room (train) mystery and a whydunit

** Second Note: some stories/movies bridge two or more major genres; for example, there are steam-punk amateur detective stories; there are sci-fi hardboiled detective stories, and so on.

Discussion Question 8 Crime (i) - The Good Guys

Discussion Question 8
Crime (i) - The Good Guys