Kreacja postaci detektywów w kryminałach edukacyjnych na przykładzie dwóch serii powieściowych – „Flawia de Luce” Alana Bradleya oraz „Zbrodnia niezbyt elegancka” Robin Stevens
The Creation of Detective Characters in Educational Crime Novels, Exemplified by Two Series of Fiction: The Case of Alan Bradley’s „Flavia de Luce” and Robin Stevens’s „A Murder Most Unladylik”

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to present the characteristic features of an unconventional character in books for young readers. It focuses on the figure of the child detective in educational crime fiction, drawing on two series of novels as examples. The author highlights to the growing interest in the crime genre and points to writers’ attempts to use it in texts for children and young adults. The article offers a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences between traditional detectives in crime novels and their counterparts in the works of Alan Bradley and Robin Stevens. It also examines the functions of selected literary devices in employed this type of text and emphasises their educational value, including the promotion of chemical knowledge. The analysis of the characters Daisy Wells and Hazel Wongand Flavia de Luce leads to the conclusion that Bradley and Stevens use their novels to draw attention to the problem of underestimating and infantilising children.

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