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Crime Fiction - Subversion of the Genre #2
Summary: This essay explores how Agatha's Christie's "Murder is Easy" embodies the conventions of crime fiction, but more importantly the essay explores how "24" and "The Skull beneath the Skin" subvert the conventions of the genre.
Through Agatha Christie's "Murder is Easy", P.D.James' "The Skull beneath the Skin" and Keifer Sutherland's 24 we can observe that crime fiction has been adapted, re-evaluated and expanded to accommodate a changing context.
By the time Christie began writing, the mystery novel was a well-established genre with definite rules. Edgar Allan Poe pioneered the mystery genre in his short story "Murders in the Rue Morgue," and writers like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle carried on the tradition Poe began. In traditional mysteries like Poe's and Doyle's, the story is told from the perspective of a detective-protagonist (or a friend of the detective, like Sherlock Holmes's companion, Dr. Watson) as he or she examines clues and pursues a killer. At the end of the novel, the detective unmasks the murderer and sums up the case, explaining the crime and clearing up mysterious events. As the story unfolds, the reader...
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