Detectives

I grew up watching detective TV shows - some for kids, like ‘A Miss Mallard Mystery’ or Ace Hart in ‘Dog City’, some not for kids, like ‘CSI: New York’, ‘Castle’, ‘Murder, She Wrote’, ‘Elementary’, and many more. Throughout my childhood, I wanted to be a private investigator. I tried reading some Arthur Conan Doyle as soon as I learned to read. It wasn’t for me back then. But my, oh my, how much I enjoy some detective fiction now!

This whole term for LitPub we are reading detective stories and we have to do a lot of close reading, looking for the hidden details and clues. These writers are so clever! Fragments with too many details - they’re hiding something, building suspense. Something’s been left out - it’s on purpose. My love for detection is back stronger than ever.

The funniest thing about Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Lady the Lake’ is that I can only see it with characters from ‘Archer’ - an animated TV show with spies (and private investigators for a season), also taking place in LA. For me, it’s the same thing but in book format. So curious who the murderer is!