Looking for detective stories?
This magazine collects mystery short stories by various authors, along with articles to provide further insights. The user can inspect each text and its features either separately, or in comparison mode.
The purpose of this web site is to explore various types of typographic and layout style for text documents, as an end-of-course project for the "Information Modeling and Web technologies" course of the Master Degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge of the University of Bologna, under professor Fabio Vitali. All copyrights and related rights on the content remain with their original owners. All copyright on the typographic and layout choices are 2023 © Under the Magnifying Glass.The documents contained in this web site have been selected for their length and complexity from XXX. Their publication here is not intended to be an alternative or replace their original locations:
- File 1: Dainty Hands: Perceptions of Women and Crime in Sherlock Holmes Stories
- File 2: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Adventures of the Musgrave Ritual
- File 3: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia
All copyrights and related rights on the content remain with their original owners. All copyright on the typographic and layout choices are 2023 © Federica Bonifazi, Chloe Papadopoulou, Loredana Salvatore.
Sherlock Holmes
First introduced to the world in 1887 by Arthur Conan Doyle this idiosyncratic detective is featured in 4 novels, 56 short stories and many screen adaptations.
Hercules Poirot
A brilliant mind created by the famous Agatha Christie, appearing in 33 novels, two plays, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
Nancy Drew
Young, intelligent and talented, she is one of the most popular US detective figures, starring in 175 novels written by a series of authors in the years 1930 to 2003.
Styles
What if you could investigate this website according to different styles?
1500
What if Conan Doyle lived in the late Renaissence? Then, Holmes' adventures would have been read in this 16th century manuscript style.
Late Sixties
A sixties magazine's layout based on the 1960s psychedelic poster lettering of the underground artist Victor Moscoso and on the creations of the psychedelic designer Wes Wilson.
XIX
Read Sherlock Holmes' stories in the same style as they were first published in the XIX century on The Strand.
XXI
The early 2010s mark the vaporwave aesthetic, a nostalgic style of the old internet. The Virtual Plaza welcomes you, and you are welcome to it.
First half XX
Essentiality, modernity, attention to color and shape. This style is a tribute to the bauhaus movement for creative design.
Future
Discover our sci-fi inspired style. You can use our monitors to entertain yourself, but due to the current invasions on our planet, we do not guarantee that they work properly all the time.
Team
Federica Bonifazi
Chloe Papadopoulou
