According to Ralph Waldo Emerson ‘’Crime Fiction reveals the truth that reality often obscures.’’
Good morning/afternoon staff, parents, esteemed guests and of course the year 12 students of Good Shepherd Catholic College. My name is Lili Clewett and I am a Literary Expert for English Explorers here today to provide an overview of Crime Fiction and its history in order to deconstruct the literary genre for your upcoming assessment piece. I will also compare and contrast how crime and law enforcement have been evolved over time in two particular subgenres. Crime Fiction as we know it did not emerge or evolve until the nineteenth century after Edgar Allan Poe had introduced his first fictional Detective in his story ‘’The Murders …show more content…
The genre usually focuses on a television series, film, or text in which the attention is on the procedures used by the police force in solving the crime.Police procedurals show a variety of police-related topics including forensics, autopsies, interrogation etc. This sub-genre usually has a Detective, Forensic Specialist and an investigator who is either seen as private or professional. These people work together to investigate and fight against crimes including murder, pickpocketing, hijacking etc. This sub-genre shows the crime and investigation element of crime fiction, not so much of the investigation element as that is depicted in the Classic Detective subgenre of Crime Fiction.This information is evident in the text The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver. In the text Lincoln Rhyme is depicted as a Criminologist who specialises in the field of Forensics, until an accident had left him physically and emotionally scarred. Lincoln then became a diabolical killer challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and innovative duel of wits. Police Detective Amelia Sachs and Rhyme work side by side and must follow a entanglement of clues that reaches back to a dark chapter in New York City's past and reaches further into the darkness of the mind of a madman who won't stop until he has stripped life down to the bone (#1) and Deaver, 2017). This information is also evident in the text First to Die by James Patterson. The text circulates around a group of four women who must work together to solve murders of young newly-wed women. These are not amateur sleuths though, they are each professionals who work together to share private interdepartmental information in order to track and stop the diabolical killer (#1) and Patterson,