Maureen Malone's Skills For Being A Detective

“Regardless of whether you pursue a career with a law enforcement agency or as a private detective,” Maureen Malone states in her article titled Skills for Being a Detective, “certain skills are critical to your success as a detective”(Chron.com). In many detective stories, you will find there are certain things the character needs to be able to do to be good at their job. Some examples that Malone listed in her article include critical thinking and problem solving, attention to detail, and written and oral communication skills. Almost all detectives, fictional or otherwise, exhibit these traits. Two good examples of detectives like that include Sherlock Holmes from the many books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dirk Gently from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency on the BBC. Despite the obvious differences separating Sherlock Holmes and Dirk Gently, they are
He is very keen on observation, uses tools and questioning to find answers, and can deduct things very easily from even the smallest of clues. He uses these heightened skills a lot, one example being on page (___) of The Hound of the Baskervilles when he and his assistant Watson observe the cane left behind by Dr. Mortimer. On the contrary, Dirk Gently uses the same skills but in a less extreme manner. He is sort of observant, he points out facts to store in his brain for later, and he uses basic understanding of the subject to solve mysteries. Even though it may seem as though that hinders his mystery-solving abilities, he and Todd constantly solve mysteries together using knowledge, facts, trivia, answers from other people or outside forces, observation, etc. Throughout the entire series, especially at the end of the last episode in season one, he uses the information he gathered to form a sound hypothesis to solve the crime, and always ends up