Original Detective Stories | Film Noir Stories | Crime and Passion Stories
A detective story is an intellectual game, whether taken from real life or else from fiction storytelling... Detective stories invite the reader to be a part of the puzzle, which ultimately is, to discover who the murderer is, who is the villain... and often there is no hero but an antihero ... In the good tradition of film noir, that black genre of thriller, the detective is an antihero, full of human faults, often agressive, insecure and emotionally troubled, who keeps going out of a need to stay alive, but unhappy and bitter to the end. Whodunnits always, detective stories are thrillers full of non-stop action, blood, passion and murder, as passion often leads to murder... Be it a true detective story or a fictional detective story, they are altogether similar, in that you have to follow the clues and the hints, to find the culprit of the crime.
The pretty gal's corpse was found buried in the dirt... Extra, extra, read all about it here!! Short original detective stories to read on line. Suspense, mystery, whodonits, on a film noir atmosphere... Click on the links to go read the stories:
The Private Eye Gazette, original detective stories to read online
In a good detective story, you need a crime, the detective needs to find the suspects and the culprits; the sleuth needs to find the connection between the victim and the murderer, the wrongly accused, and let's not forget the heroine, who must be very pretty and alluring, and who often falls in love with the detective, if not the other way round; the superior powers of observation and logic by the detective, who starts tying the clues together, until he finds the solution to the puzzle... The hard evidence, or lack of it... And sometimes the detective must himself kill, in order to survive...
