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Roylott is a suspect for the murder as he is violent “uncontrollable in his anger” and the local people fear him “folks would fly at his approach”. The gypsies are suspect because of the circumstantial evidence of Julia’s use of the words “speckled band” this can be shown by “The spotted handkerchiefs which so many of [the gypsies] wear over their heads may explain the strange adjective that she used” It was this circumstantial evidence that made Holmes believe that the gypsies were to blame “Whistles at night [and] the presence of a band of gypsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor… the mystery may be cleared along these lines” Holmes later admits to Watson that he was miss lead by this false evidence “the presence of the gypsies and the use of the word ‘band’… was sufficient to put me on an entirely wrong scent” ‘Visitors’ conforms to some of the detective story conventions but in different ways to ‘the Speckled Band’, and in many ways diverges from these conventions...
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Roylott is a suspect for the murder as he is violent “uncontrollable in his anger” and the local people fear him “folks would fly at his approach”. The gypsies are suspect because of the circumstantial evidence of Julia’s use of the words “speckled band” this can be shown by “The spotted handkerchiefs which so many of [the gypsies] wear over their heads may explain the strange adjective that she used” It was this circumstantial evidence that made Holmes believe that the gypsies were to blame “Whistles at night [and] the presence of a band of gypsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor… the mystery may be cleared along these lines” Holmes later admits to Watson that he was miss lead by this false evidence “the presence of the gypsies and the use of the word ‘band’… was sufficient to put me on an entirely wrong scent” ‘Visitors’ conforms to some of the detective story conventions but in different ways to ‘the Speckled Band’, and in many ways diverges from these conventions...
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The Women Detective: The Ultimate Oxymoron? To be able to figure out whether or not women can be detectives, one first has to beg the question: What IS a detective? In the classis sense, a detective in a person that in called in when a crime occurs and the police are at a loss to solve the crime...	4 / 1101
EDGAR ALLEN POE How is a detective story unique and different from the average narrative? Willard Huntington Wright once explained a detective story effectively saying, "I believe the detective novel does not fall under the head of fiction in the ordinary sense, but belongs rather in the category of riddle; it is in fact, a complicated and extended puzzle cast in fictional form" (Wright 2)...	5 / 1377
The Social Creation of the Female Detective: Miss Marple As one of the first female detectives, Miss Marple had large shoes to fill from her male counterparts. When first created, she was described as a "sixty-five year old woman who was caught in the fashions and manners of the turn of the century" (Irons and Warthling Roberts 64)...	5 / 1217
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