Conan Doyle’s Crime Stories

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Why do you think Conan Doyle’s crime stories have been so popular?

I’m going to closely examine some of Conan Doyle’s stories in order to

show why they have proved to be so popular. Conan Doyle has been

branded the “father of crime fiction” because he was an outstanding

author among the first crime stories writers. First of all I would

like to focus our attention on the first story which were published in

“The Strand magazine” in the 1800s

At some point during this period Conan Doyle decided not to write for

the magazines and this led to an excessive plummeting of the sales off

“the Strand”. Some readers made a profit much to demonstrate the

withdraw of Doyle’s stories. This suggests that the stories had become

quite popular.

Now, let us look at “The Speckled Band” there is no doubt that it is a

fantastic and captivating narrative.

The narrative structure of “The Speckled Band” according to Tzventan

Todorov starts with “Equilibrium disruptions or conflict and new

equilibrium”. These theories suggest that the narrative is driven by

the need to resolve a conflict or a complication.

In fact most of Conan Doyle’s narratives have adopted this underlying

this structure. It is not a surprise then that the stories command a

huge market share.

The opposing forces which form the main themes of Doyle’s stories are:

Good Vs Evil, Strong Vs Weak, Villain Vs Hero and Rationality Vs

Irrationality.

Going back to “The Speckled Band”, Dr Roylott is portrayed as an

irrationality villain who was driven by greed.

The opening of “The Speckled Band” is devoted to the remarkable

quality of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle uses a foil character in the

person Dr Watson to narrative the story. He has done this in orde...

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these stories to answer my question, I have found out that these

stories that Conan Doyle has something to learn from them every time a

story is read. As these stories were written in the 1800s times were

different to now, Conan Doyle’s language used is very formal, and

where by there is no informal language used. In every story I have

read Sherlock Holmes always like to be in the lead of his clients, he

finds out information on his clients by glancing at them in detail.

When most stories are told they are told by Dr Watson who is a

colleague of Sherlock Holmes, this also makes the audience more into

the story, rather than being told the problem they are brought into

it. I have come across that Conan Doyle’s has been popular because he

has come up with many good stories which could appeal to people in

real life and help them solve life’s problem.

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