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The book I chose to read for the genre fiction unit is Edge. Edge is an image of a classic detective novel, where there is a case trying to be solved and naturally a detective on the case. If I were to try to describe my book, I would say that it is like a modern Sherlock Holmes. This book is written by Jeffery Deaver, who has also written many other books.
Although there are many characteristics of a "classic crime novel", one of the top 2 most common trends and necessities in crime fiction novels are the use of suspense, by having the main character be solving the crime and he story is told through their eyes. In the first article, it discusses this and says how you can not write a novel, specifically a crime fiction novel and not have suspense and a powerful protagonist solving the crime. Edge, my book, has this and all of the suspense you could hope for it to.
The next thing that you could hope for in a crime novel would be a seemingly flawless crime but on closer inspection by the all-too-good detective there is one flaw that leads to the weakness of the crime. So far, I am about a fourth of the way through the book, and the crime is just being introduced but I do think that this will be the case in my novel. (no pun intended) I have read some other crime novels and this definitely is expressed, and a key point in most novels.
The book I chose to read for the genre fiction unit is Edge. Edge is an image of a classic detective novel, where there is a case trying to be solved and naturally a detective on the case. If I were to try to describe my book, I would say that it is like a modern Sherlock Holmes. This book is written by Jeffery Deaver, who has also written many other books.
Although there are many characteristics of a "classic crime novel", one of the top 2 most common trends and necessities in crime fiction novels are the use of suspense, by having the main character be solving the crime and he story is told through their eyes. In the first article, it discusses this and says how you can not write a novel, specifically a crime fiction novel and not have suspense and a powerful protagonist solving the crime. Edge, my book, has this and all of the suspense you could hope for it to.
The next thing that you could hope for in a crime novel would be a seemingly flawless crime but on closer inspection by the all-too-good detective there is one flaw that leads to the weakness of the crime. So far, I am about a fourth of the way through the book, and the crime is just being introduced but I do think that this will be the case in my novel. (no pun intended) I have read some other crime novels and this definitely is expressed, and a key point in most novels.
Some other novels that are considered stories of the classic crime and detective novel plot include:
~A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
~The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
~Watson’s Choice by Gladys Mitchell
Articles:
http://www.britannica.com/art/detective-story-narrative-genre
http://m.wisegeek.com/what-is-crime-fiction.htm
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