Gcse Wider Reading A Grade: Sh
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Conan Doyle’s ‘The Speckled Band’
Compared With ‘Visitors’ by Brian Moon
This essay will examine both ‘the Speckled Band’ by Conan Doyle and ‘Visitors’ by Brian Moon and will look at how each one conforms to or diverges from the conventions of ....
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.... an amateur in the sense that he solves crimes for a hobby, he says, “as to my reward, my profession is my reward.” Holmes is an amateur in the root sense of the word “someone who works simply for the love of it” However the way that Holmes uses the word “profession” shows that he does not consider himself to be an amateur.
Another convention of the detective story is that the detective will have a confidant through whom he can explain his reasoning to the r ....
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