Group: 21-11 group Content Introduction chapter about detective writers

Detective skills: 3/5
Writing skills: 2/5

14. Joan Wilder
Appearance: Romancing the Stone, 1984 [film]
Profile: Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) is a romance novelist, whose swashbuckling, presumably sexy books about the fearless Angelina and her dashing cowboy lover Jesse have become enormous bestsellers. She’s also kind of a mess, unlucky in love, rather lonely and definitely afraid of everything—that is, until her sister goes missing in Colombia, and she has to head to South American to deliver the ransom. Along the way, Joan discovers that the kidnappers want a mysterious jewel (which is buried somewhere in the jungle), and she sets off with a cranky American (Michael Douglas) to find it. Maybe this isn’t TECHNICALLY a detective movie, but she does a lot of really good investigating and honestly, who cares—it has the best scene ever of a writer getting recognized while out in the world.
Detective skills: 2/5
Writing skills: 3/5

13. Jughead Jones
Appearance: Riverdale, 2017-present [television]
Profile: Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse) is the brooding, morose lit-boy narrator of Riverdale, the CW’s hit neo-noir television show that offers an alternate adaptation of the Archie Comics universe. The town of Riverdale is a hotbed of every single kind of imaginable (and unimaginable) horror (truly, there are no more sharks left to jump), and Jughead wryly adapts it all in the novel he’s working on. “You know how there are just some towns where bad things always seem to happen?” he writes. “Well, Riverdale has become one of those towns. The most recent horror? The school janitor turned out to be a serial killer. But we were putting him away along with our Christmas decorations.” So, he’s not an amazing writer, but he is a pretty good detective, though his girlfriend Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart) should take most of the credit where that job is concerned.
Detective skills: 4.5/5