Interfering Investigators
As I have mentioned before, I am trying my hand at writing a
murder mystery. One of the challenges I have come across is what kind of
sleuth. How do you create a character that you hope will make it into more than
one of your novels? Do you start with a back story? Appearance? Their personality?
And how do they solve these unsolvable crimes? What is their method of
deduction? And what exactly connects them to these crimes?
Poirot is a private investigator and is asked by others to
take on a case, where as Marple is a doddering old biddy who usually knows
someone involved in the affair. Then you have Jack Frost from touch of frost
who is a police detective, and Tommy and Tuppence who are a young couple, also
private investigators. There are even some novels where the heir to King Henry
VIII, Henry Fitzroy, is a vampire who helps a police officer to solve crimes
that have a supernatural flare to them.
The literary world is awash with different kinds of Sleuths
and creating a unique individual with the necessary traits to solving crime is
not easy. Yet we still try. It also depends on the target audience, a children’s
mystery would be better suited to having a child sleuth, etc...
So what are your thoughts on the matter? What kind of sleuth
do you prefer? Who is your favourite? Do you even like murder mysteries? Let me
know in the comments below.
Read, follow, comment and enjoy. M x
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