Clues

In the first detective story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allen Poe begins providing clues through the testimony of the witnesses which Dupin reads in the newspaper.

Read the story by Roald Dahl, The Landlady, which is on Blackboard and make a list of the clues Dahl provides to readers to enable them to solve the mystery. This can just be dot points.

Post to your journal with a sentence or two in which you give your personal response to the story. You might consider the following:

Did Dahl make it too difficult for the reader?

Did you enjoy the story?

Monday's homework

Read to the end of page 8, the last of the witness statements.

 Make a list of all of the various statements made about the "shrill voice" and the nationality of the person making the statement.

Week 2 Homework

Comparing detectives

 

 

You have read some of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", the first detective story written by Edgar Allen Poe. Roald Dahl is famous for subverting this genre. Read the story "Lamb to the Slaughter" and write a paragraph in which you compare the detectives in this story with what you know so far about Dupin, the detective in Poe's story.