Crime in Fiction

By Tanja

  • The Tell/Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe (1843)

    Charateristics:
    Crime in focus

  • The Murder at the Towers, E.V Knox, 1929

    Charateristics:
    The investigation is in focus.
    Post-model:
    - The omniscient detective.
    - The detective's friend.
    - Plot.
    - The unlikely solytion.
    - The police.

  • Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl, 1953

    The woman is a killer - kills her husband, who is a detective.
    Both the murder and the investigation is in focus.
    The police - not always clever - she is a perfect killer.

  • A Graveyard shif, James M Reasoner, 1978

    Hard-boiled crime.
    Murder is in focus - we don't hear about the investigation at all.

  • Don't you hate having two heads?, Christine Poulson, 2006

    The woman is not longer the weak one - but could be the killer.
    Say something about society: more equality of status, you don't know, who the murder is, could be anybody - creates suspence - twist in the end.