Peter Abrahams Behind The Defective Detective

The Defective Curtain: How to be a Good Detective A girl, young, perhaps a even a child to you, sits, sits in her favorite chair. She thinks, she figures it out. She can’t do anything about it, nothing. She can try. Yet all she do can do is hope, wait, maybe she’ll get lucky, and someone will believe her.
If you’ve ever read Peter Abrahams Behind the Curtain, you know how good a detective, Ingrid can be, and if you’ve seen the animated short The Defective Detective, you know how imaginative ( a bit too much, and a tad bit morbid as well…), and defective a detective can be. If you haven’t read or seen either of those, well here's a recap. Ingrid brings down a drug ring, her best friends brother, and her own. The Defective Detective infers what is happening, even though what actually is happening, isn’t the truth at all; and the short is about an obviously defective detective, but he

When he heard gunshots and sees tomato sauce on the window, he thinks it is blood and someone got shot. He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. After the Detective sees “blood” dripping from the ceiling, he goes up to investigate and get the entire story backwards. The viewer feels dramatic irony, this is where the viewer knows more than the characters do. In this case, the viewer knows that no one is actually being murdered--there is just a rat in the kitchen while the old lady is making tomato soup. This illustrates the idea that the Detective doesn’t know what he is doing, that is how he got his name, the Defective Detective. He infers to much and doesn’t wait to absorb the information like Ingrid does. He just jumps in and does whatever he wants to counter that happens in his head, as I said this is what makes him a defective detective. To the Detective, everything is a red