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Hieu Nguyen Ms. Haas Writing 37 25 Febuary 2014

House vs. Holmes The mystery genre has caused an addiction in millions of readers all over the world. Not only do mystery books provide action and suspense, there is a special brilliance to each great mystery story that sets it apart from the other genres. Like other genres, mystery stories are inclined to follow a set of standard rules or writing conventions. According to the literary critic Ginny Wiehardt, "readers of mysteries seek a particular experience: they want the intellectual challenge of solving the crime before the detective does, and the pleasure of knowing that everything will come together in the end. Set by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, mystery writing conventions include such things such as a main detective, a puzzling problem, or a sidekick. Most importantly, every mystery story needs a detective who possesses incredible deduction abilities. Readers are fascinated by the superior thinking abilities of the detective and become more engaged in trying to solve the case. Although mystery genre convention have carried their way into our modern mystery text, it is not exactly the same. Genres are not static because they change to engage their audience. A revisionist of Conan Doyle's story is House M.D. It first aired in 2004 and lasted all the way to 2012 with 8 seasons. House M.D. is a television series that stars an anti-social and tainted doctor who does everything he can, in his bizarre ways, to solve puzzled medical cases that come his way. Just like in

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Sherlock Holmes, House has his own modern ways of deduction that is easier to relate in today's society than that of Holmes'.