Compare And Contrast Any Two Conventions Of Crime Fiction

A quirky and highly intelligent detective who does not fit in with society is a common genre convention of crime fiction. The detective’s techniques of crime investigation often differs from the average police detectives and observes and discovers clues everyone else overlooks. In the first short story “A Study In Scarlet” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes is the detective who solves the crime through the art of deduction. R. Austin Freeman’s short story “The Case of Oscar Brodski” features Dr John Evelyn Thorndyke who discovers the man responsible for the death of Oscar Brodski. The eccentric detective has unique ways of interrupting and analyzing the crime scene, that often shocks and amazes both the police force and the reader.
The sidekick thinks highly of his fellow detective and is never failed to be impressed by his ways. The sidekick often narrates the story in his perspective just like A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Case of Oscar Brodski by R. Austin Freeman. Both stories are narrated by the less intelligent sidekick in the perspective of Dr John Watson and Boscovitch. The intelligence of the sidekick is often slightly below the reader, making the reader feel ahead of the sidekick and more like a detective themselves in the way they are able to solve things before the sidekick. All thoughts of the sidekick are presented during the story, an example of this is the astonishment of Boscovitch has of Dr Thorndkye: “I was silent for some moments. Well as I knew Thorndyke, I was completely taken by surprise; a sensation, indeed, that I experienced anew every time that I accompanied him on one of his investigations. His marvellous power of co-ordinating apparently insignificant facts, of arranging them into an ordered sequence and making them tell a coherent story, was a phenomenon that I never got used to; every exhibition of it astonished me afresh.” (The Case of Oscar Brodski, page