Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. A comparative analysis

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A, Jamshedpur Womens College, language: English, abstract: Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie are master spinners of crime fiction and created with Sherlock Holmes and Poirot the two most famous detectives of the literature world. The preceding paper purports to draw a comparative analysis between the two characters, study their characteristics and explore their methods concerning deductive logic. A sort of mind mapping has been done, for this end, so as to put forth the writers¿ hits and misses.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie are names synonymous with crime fiction.

Doyle, a physician and writer, had the knowledge and imagination, critical and creative ability to prune and craft the choicest mystery fictions in the form of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Agatha Christie, a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, who is best remembered for her crime fictions, did have the skills of weaving mystery fiction, but she lacked novelty.