Tzvetan Todorov pointed out that detective fiction contained "not one but two stories: the story of the crime and the story of the investigation. An examination of "Agatha Christie's "The Witness for the Prosecution" present a story of crime and investigation as a means to keep the reader in absolute suspense from beginning to end.
Agatha Christie's, "The Witness for the Prosecution,"begins by revealing to the implied reader that a crime had been committed, the murder of Miss Emily French. The motives for wanting her dead were unknown. The one suspect, Leonard Vole, a man who made the acquaintance of Miss French by rescuing her, was standing trial for her murder
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