6/5/2023 0 Comments Riddle on the sands![]() ![]() Combining elements of suspense, danger and intrigue, the prime focus of the story is action, and the heroes are accordingly adventurous and aligned with the ‘street class’ rather than the gentlemanly detective. Differing from the classic English detective novel epitomized by Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, the emphasis of the new thriller is not only on the collection and interpretation of evidence to solve the mystery, but upon the actions and characters themselves. Following several decades after The Riddle of the Sands, the thriller novel was still an evolving genre which, although based on crime and detection, had moved away from the intrigues of the upper class onto the ‘mean streets.’ The evolution of the thriller in the first half of the twentieth century marks a drastic departure from the cerebral detective novels of the previous century which focused on refined, often haughty characters and worked to reveal rather than obscure. ![]() However, at the time of its publication in the early twentieth century there was no clear fictional formulae established. ![]() Not an explicitly political novel, not an adventure novel, and differing considerably from the classic detective stories of the last century, The Riddle of the Sands would today be clearly classified as a thriller. When the mystery novel The Riddle of the Sands was published in 1903, readers had a difficult time of what to make of it. ![]()
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