Examination of the Settings in The Signalman, The Man With...

Examination of the Settings in The Signalman, The Man With The Twisted Lip and The Red Room These stories are mysteries and they try to keep the reader gripped until the ending, for example in The Red Room, the reader reads on to see what happens to the man and whether the room is really haunted. The Man With The Twisted Lip also keeps the reader in suspense, as the reader would want to know how the man was missing or whether he was dead and also want to know what happened. In the Signalman, also draws the readers attention, because He seems odd and there is something mysterious about him that the readers would want to find out. For each one, there is a solution at the end because, at the end of†¦show more content†¦He had been involved in a railway accident in 1865, when He was travelling to London by Train when it derailed at high speed, killing 10 peoples and injuring many more and wrote The Signalman a year later. The Man With The Twisted Lip (TMWTTL), written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1891, was one of his many Sherlock Holmes tales, which display aspects of life, in this last decade of the Victorias reign the first appearance of the fictional Sherlock Holmes was in 1887, whilst the real- life Jack the Ripper committed his gruesome and notorious murders the following year, in autumn, 1888. Conan Doyle is very precise in describing the location, which was the same dense network of streets in East London, frequented by Jack the Ripper, who was never caught, the Victorians consoled themselves by the thought that few outwitted the brilliant detective Conan Doyles books. The Red Room by H G Wells, was written in 1894. Wells story is the most recent of the three yet; the choices that he made its setting and contents deliberately bestow on it an almost timeless quality. He also even makes clear of how old- fashioned the castle is. Wells did not wish this story to be closely linked with the period in which he wrote it unlike the other two stories, so that he could