UNIT 4
Expansion 4
Exercise 2
Detective stories are very popular
in many English-speaking countries.
In detective stories,
the hero of the story is a detective
or a police officer who investigates a crime-
usually about someone who has been killed.
The detective asks lots of questions,
looks for evidence,
and in the end finds the person
who did the crime.
People enjoy reading detective stories and
trying to work out who did the crime.
One very of famous writer of detective stories
was Agatha Christie.
She was born in England in 1891.
Many of her stories are about a funny detective
called Hercule Poirot.
In some other stories,
the detective is a kind old lady
called Miss Marple.
Christie wrote many detective stories.
Two very famous ones are
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd(1926)
and Death on the Nile(1939).
Agatha Christie died in 1976.
Another well-known detective is Philip Marlowe
He is the hero of stories such as The Big Sleep
(1939) by the American writer Raymond Chandler.
He was born in Chicago in 1888
and he died in 1959.

Perhaps the most famous detective
is Sherlock Holmes.
Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson were
invented by Arthur Conan Doyle.
who was born in Scotland in 1859
and died in 1930.
One famous Sherlock Holmes story is
The Sign of Four (1890).
Holmes' famous enemy was Professor Moriarty.