Lesson overview

Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
Comedy
Mystery
Action
Adventure
This lesson concludes the examination of blending of detective and comedy genres in 'The Falcon's Malteser', focussing on the detective weighing up the pros and cons of the job. How does the author use this scene to wrap up the chapter, and entice you to keep reading? What features of this scene continue the detective genre tropes? We rewrite the passage looking at each of these details, and end with a checkpoint piece.