Golden Boiled

The "Golden Age" of detective fiction and the classic figure Sherlock Holmes paved the way for the hard-boiled detective fiction that is illustrated through Sam Spade in Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon". The classical detective fiction carries many traditional aspects, , full of sleuthing and gentlemanly, upper-class detectives. On the contrary, the hard-boiled detective fiction is tough, and the detectives use their strength and attitude combined with their raw knowledge of crime to solve cases. Though different, both genres of detective fiction carry a similar storyline, involving mystery, and crime solving detectives.

The character Sherlock Holmes and his detective stories during the time of the Golden Age are probably the most famous of fictional detective stories of all time. One of the reasons is Holmes style of problem solving, logical deductive reasoning and seeing flaws in his surroundings that everyone else misses, as well as weeding out clues that will lead to no productive results. His witty and charm also set him apart from everyone else in his stories, there was an arrogance about him that he knew he was the best, but you had to acknowledge and appreciate his mind. "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." Another reason Doyle's stories have survived all these years is Holmes faithful sidekick Watson. The very bright doctor how accompanies Holmes through all the cases, although he is the narrator the story revolves around Holmes, this makes it interesting when Holmes finds things out but you the reader do not until he purges his information to Watson. The Hard-Boiled detectives have their star also. Sam Spade a man who plays by his own rules, he is tough and a bit stubborn but able to hold his own in any situation. He has the uncanny ability to get the best of anybody he ever has to encounter, whether it is a client, suspect or perpetrator Sam Spade always gets the answers.

The golden age tends to revel in the plot, its setting and the ingenuity with which it is solved. The Golden Age treated crimes as intellectual problems, so that they could come up with a well thought and planned out structured demonstrations of their mental keenness. The hardboiled detective stories rely more on brute force than cleverness to solve the crime and an absolute ability to survive against all the odds. The settings also make these two types of stories very different in Golden Age stories the settings are usually swap villages, and big cities for hard-boiled with the story unavoidably taking the reader on a journey through the