Assessment task 3 is a 1200-word critical essay in response to the following question about the crime fiction short stories ‘The Tuesday Night Club’ by Agatha Christie and ‘The Jade Empress’ by Jean Kwok.
In your essay, you must address the following question:
How does crime fiction reflect contemporary issues? These issues could be about class, race, gender, justice, truth vs reality, perceptions and assumptions, ageism, human nature, capitalism, the environment, etc.
In your response make sure to address genre conventions: what makes the stories Golden Age, for example?
