In Murder on the Orient Express, all the characters are involved in the crime. In the book "Ten Little Indians" the killer is a dead man who turned out to be alive. At the same time, both books involve avoiding moral responsibility, which is what readers especially liked about them. In "Murder..." the victim deserved to die, and besides, collective responsibility is generally comforting. In "Ten Little Indians" everyone is also to blame: after all, unpunished killers are gathered on the island, and the judge judges them, although he does not have the moral right to do so. Agatha Christie's novels, where either no one is to blame or everyone is involved, are an elegant departure from the standard scheme of the British detective story.The detective story is one of the most popular genres of literature. We love to read books about deceit and understand that the evil that is so much around us will be punished. Stories of detectives solving riddles have been around since ancient India. But the first real detective with a complicated criminal case appeared in 1841. It was Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Murder in the Rue Morgue". Later, all the famous works about crimes were written: The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Brothers Karamazov, Murder on the Orient Express, Drama on the Hunt.Writer Dmitry Bykov chose 10 detective stories that are better The schemes of this genre reveal everything.In this course, we will analyze the main books about detectives and criminals - from the adventures of Sherlock Holmes to the action-packed novels of Jean-Christophe Grange. And consider the 10 main schemes of detectives. For example, there was no murder, the murdered one was, the detective killed. And also let's talk about the works in which the author managed to jump over these schemes. And even make the viewer a killer!And we will also find out:• Who was the prototype of the great literary detectives.•• Why Sherlock Holmes and Poirot are gone. And why today, to catch a criminal, you need a whole team of professionals.• How feminism influenced the detective, and the woman became the main criminal.• What complex topics are covered by detectives: from terrorism to search for God.• How a detective story can become a boring history textbook.• What books can you use to learn about the life of an English estate or the life of a French intellectual.• Than English detective differs from French and how they both differ from German and Russian.

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