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Crime stories Band

There is no doubt that Conan Doyle's crime stories have set a precedent for this genre of literature. Each and every crime story that is written in the present day is compared to the stories of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle was the first great writer of detective fiction; he was the writer that defined the ingredients of a good crime story. A good crime story must contain: suspense, twists, actions, a problem followed by a solution as well interesting characters. His stories portray each of these aspects perfectly which you can see in many of his crime stories, for example, The Red Headed League, The Adventures of Black Peter, The Speckled Band and many more.

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Why is Conan Doyle a successful writer of crime stories? In this essay I hope to find out how Arthur Conan Doyle is a successful writer of crime stories. I hope to this by looking at five different elements of the books, characters, plot, settings, period detail and atmosphere. Sherlock Holmes in the speckled band is presented in a mysterious, cunning and unusual way, "he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual and even the fantastic".