Detective Story Unit 3 SECONDARY ENGLISH ILBC TR

Detective Story Unit 3 SECONDARY ENGLISH ILBC TR. MAING

Detective Story UNIT 3 ILBC SECONDARY ENGLISH TR. MAING

Brainstorming Features you know about Detective Story

1. Features of the Detective Genre • Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue • A clever criminal, some clues

2. Solving a Mystery • Split Personality by Mark Turner (shortest crime stories in the world) • He was gorgeous. She was thrilled. But puzzled. “Why were your other relationships so short? She wondered aloud as they walked. He glanced upwards. “Well, I have this slight problem…” Later, the detective grimaced at the ghastly sight of young girl, bloody beneath the full moon. In the distance, a wolf howled. • How many characters are there in this story? • What happened in “Split Personality”? Write a summary of the story in two or three sentences. • What ingredients of a detective story can you identify in “Split Personality”?

S. S Van Dine “Twenty Rules of Writing Detective Stories The detective story is a sporting event. And for the writing of detective stories there are very definite rules. 1. The reader must have equal opportunity with the detective for solving the mystery. 2. The detective should never turn out to be the culprit. 3. The culprit must be discovered by logical deduction, not by accident or coincidence. 4. The detective novel must have a detective in it. His function is to gather clues that will eventually lead to the person who did the dirty work in the first chapter. 5. There must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. No lesser crime than murder will do.

6. The culprit must turn out to be someone who has played a prominent part in the story, that is, a person with whom the reader is familiar. 7. There must be just one culprit, no matter how many murders are committed. 8. The truth of the problem must at all times be apparent, provided the reader is clever enough to see it. So the reader, if he had been as clever as the detective, could have solved the mystery himself without going on to the final chapter. 9. A detective novel should contain n long descriptive passages. 10. A crime in a detective story must never turn out to be an accident.

• 2. What do you think Van Dine meant when he wrote that a detective story is a “sporting event”? • 3. a. Which of these rules does the story Split Personality stick to? • b. Which rules does it break? • 4. How could the story be continued so that it sticks to Van Dine’s rules? Write a plan to show your ideas.

3. Character • Masque of the Red Death: Edgar Allan Poe (Youtube video)

4. Creating tension • The Road/ The Star of the Sea • Masque of the Red Death

5. Plot

6. Openings (Creative Writing assignment)

7. Building Description

8. Providing the Clues

9. Planning a Story • The victim is: • The murderer killed the victim because: • The murderer killed the victim by: • The setting for the story is: • The other suspects are:

• They might have wanted to kill the victim too because • 1) • 2) • 3) • The detective is: • The clues that give the murderer away are: • The red herrings that will mislead the reader are: • The final clue that leads the detective to the murderer is: