Thursday's lesson and homework

Agatha Christie's 1926 dedication in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is – “To Punkie who likes an orthodox detective story, murder, inquest, and suspicion falling on everyone in turn!”

 Is And Then There Were None an orthodox detective story? What is the evidence for this being true? What is the evidence against?

What is your final judgement and why? Post to your blog.

Week 3 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.

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?