Reading lets the sentan Look at the photos of two detectives. When do you think they first appeared in books? Read the text quickly and check your answers. STUDY Skills in the 1920 in the 1960 Why is it useful to look at pictures and the tide of texts before you read them? » STUDY SKILLS page 94 b in the 1940 d in the 1970 Detectives with a difference polka y collected evidence und o Today's article looks at two famous, but quite different, fictional detectives Who is your favourite? a moming they wever, they didn newspapen are being sow. tayin lete the sentences with the soun tor te given. e police are still locking for commited the pon, ter new evideros, te pido opened the lice have got a man at the station on asbury but he is de yng t (charge scoла) lice found a the criminal's car when they made the (colect, ares) Perhaps the most famous writer of crime fiction in the world Apstha Christie lier kttle Belgan detective Hercule Poinot, is quite an unfürgettable character Pourot Erst ppeared in 1920 in the bock The Mysterous Affair or Stylm. and then continued to solve crimes in 31 novels, one play and S0 shart stories before he died in the book Curais in 1975 Puirot ia merprable for his appearance and he was very yairi He wore smart fashionable clothes that didn't always look good on his shape and height - he was only cre metre 62 centimetres tall and quite overweight People often compare Poirot with Sherlock Holmes. but thei methods of solving crime weren't the same Holmes was always analysing tiny pleces of evidence Poirot preferred to look at the paychology of people to find out why people committed crimes Although Cunam Christes final novel about Poiror, was publiahed in 1975 Christe actually wrote the book almont 40 years carlie She kept the book in a tank but didn't prabish i just before her own death in 1976 Today Poirot in wril known to milliors of people worldwide because of the TV adaprations of the stories. Another farrous detective nude Inspectar Morse Horrve, mou people know Morse because of the televinion programime and not the original booka by Colin Derter More was a well educaued man but he failed at university Ne was concermed about spelling and graromar and aiways corected misrakes in the police paperwork Marse w was intelligent delective and often reled on instinct and men to solve many of his cases Unfertunately his relationshipe with colleagues weren't wery successful Morse was always a linde sad and didn't make friends easily Dexter pute his first book with Morse in 1975 and the detective fio died 24 yrars later in 1999 after 13 books They flened the books for the TV series, and there were 33 different episodes on TV between 1987 and 2000 2 Read the article again. Choose the bost answers. 6 Why did Morse conect paperwork? He liked to be tidy 1 What is important about The Mysterious Affair at Styles? b Ho liked words to be correct. c He didn't like the other datectives. a It was Agatha Christie's first novel, b The book was extremely succesalul at the time, CRITICAL THinking 2 c It is the book where we first mest Povrot. What was wrong with Poirot's clothes? Read the opinions abaut detective fiction. Which say that crime fiction isn't a good thing? a They weren't fashionable, 1 It helps people understand criminal behaviour. b He chose tho wrong clothes for his size. 3 c He didn't wear the right clothes for a detective 2 it makes us accept crime as a normal thing When did Ovistie publish her final Poirot book? 3 Some people copy things they read in books or see on television. ABULARY EXTENSION 1945 4 It's important to read about crime and maybe wo can prevent crimes happening the letters in order to find a verb for eac ne in 1. b 1975 5 It makes you think the world is dangerous. burgle c1976 4 What did Inspector Morse never do? 6 Reading it makes people use their brains more. blegru gum finish university b remember information about his investigations 4 Match the underlined words with the definitions. mmoot radu 5 c speak to his colleagues How did most people find out about Morse? 1 the first example of something They read the books. 2 easy to remember because af being special tripea b They watched the TV saries. 3 very womed about your own appearance c They heard about him from friends. 4 a natural feeling or ability in a situation tposhl 5 a particular way ol doing something least article about defective st orion