“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.” This quote was said by Neil Armstrong who was a very important person in American History. This quote can be related to mystery novels. Readers enjoy the confusion that mystery can cloud over their brains and then reading along as the detective or the narrator unravel the truth behind the mystery. Some people believe that a natural human instinct is the desire to understand the things we cannot. This desire drives us to figure out the impossible and do things that other creatures cannot. Maybe this is why detectives chose this profession to understand and satisfy this desire. The unofficial guidelines to writing a detective or mystery novel shouldn’t all be followed. …show more content…
The reveal of the perpetrator was shocking and unexpected. There was no reason to suspect Dr. Sheppard of murdering Roger Ackroyd. Not only was Dr. Sheppard the narrator of the story but he was ‘assisting’ Hercule Poirot uncovering the person who murdered Roger Ackroyd. Throughout the novel there wasn’t any apparent motive for Sheppard to take the life of Ackroyd. “He knew that danger was so close at hand. And yet he never suspected me.” (Page 275) “I meant it to be published someday as the history of one of Poirot’s failures!” (Page 275) Even though the murderer turned out to be the very person helping Poirot in the mystery it didn’t make the ending any less satisfying. It is reasonable to disregard the 1st rule of writing a mystery …show more content…
In this rule it states that the death of the victim should not be accidental or a suicide because it would make the ending anticlimactic. In The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe ending was anything but anticlimactic. In fact the ending was even more interesting because of the almost comical twist. The reader would have never expected the victims to be killed by a runaway Orangutan. All the clues given to the reader were red herrings making them think the murderer was a random Foreign Man. This rule is irrelevant to the climax of the mystery novel and it should be disregarded when writing a mystery or detective