Handout for Elizabeth Craighead George, The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo

• The detective-hero is intelligent and idealistic.

• Solving the mystery often becomes a personal quest for the detective-hero.

• The detective-hero has a strong personal code of honor.

• The detective-hero may be threatened or intimidated by those who do not wish him or her to reveal information.

• The detective is generally from an unaffluent or unpretentious background.

• In the world of detective fiction, respectability or affluence often conceals deception or wrongdoing.

• Solving the mystery generally restores harmony to a community, or heals a breach between opposing groups of people.

• A Detective

• Accusations

• Crime/Body

• List of Suspects

• Clues

• Shows the centrality and relevance of the natural world to human life.

• Provides specific and accurate details about the environment.

• Illustrates the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman life, and the importance of living in harmony with? and with awareness, acceptance and respect for? the natural world.