DirectionsChoose one story from the several listed below. You do not need to read all these stories.
Each story selection has three options: an essay, a presentation, or creative writing. You will choose one option for the ONE story you have chosen.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, “A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA” (The Project Gutenberg Book of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle).
OPTION 1 (ESSAY) 750-1000 WORDS
Although Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story in America, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made the genre famous with his British detective Sherlock Holmes.
Compare this Sherlock Holmes story written in England in 1891, with Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Purloined Letter,” written in America in 1844.
How are the detectives in each story (Holme and Dupin) different? Are their methods of deduction similar or different?
Write an essay comparing the two detectives and making a claim about why Sherlock Holmes became the more famous character.
