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the love of it” However the way that Holmes uses the word “profession” shows that he does not consider himself to be an amateur.
Another convention of the detective story is that the detective will have a confidant through whom he can explain his reasoning to the reader. Holmes has a confidant, Watson, who is the stereotypical gentle doctor who is plain and uninteresting so as not to draw attention away from Holmes. “I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations” this implies that Watson lead an uninteresting life, without many interesting hobbies or pastimes.
Another convention of the detective story is that the detective is in competition with the police, however, in ‘the Speckled Band’ Holmes is not in competition with the police. Holmes does, however, express his disgust with the official police force “ fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official detective force” ...

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conventions but in different ways to ‘the Speckled Band’, and in many ways diverges from these conventions.
One of the conventions of the detective story is that the detective is an amateur, or at least not a member of the “official detective force”, however, in ‘Visitors’ the roles of the burglar and the police are switched round so the burglars are “professional [and]… respectable” whereas the police are “dirty and unkempt”. In the story burglary has been nationalised and has become a profession while the police force seems to consist of all the amateurs that used to be the burglars before burglary was ...

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