Lesson overview
Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
detective stories
comedy
humour
tropes
- This lesson begins an examination of the blending of detective and comedy genres in 'The Falcon's Malteser', focussing on setting up the 'down-on-their-luck' detective and tropes such as a first person narrative. What are the tropes of the 'hardboiled' detective story novel and how can this be manipulated to make it funny? We rewrite the passage looking at each of these details, and end with a checkpoint piece.