Killing Mystery Stories

The detective genre is recognizable by the mystery that it represents or establishes. Every word of a fiction novel is chosen with a purpose, and that purpose on a detective novel is to create suspense. The excerpts from The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Murder Is My Business by Lynette Prucha, and Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, create an atmosphere of suspense and mystery. Even though they all fit into this category, there are some differences that make each novel unique. The imagery that the authors offer in the excerpts helps the reader to distinguish the similarities and the differences.

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s wife is freaking out at her husband because they have a Mexican locksmith changing their locks. She tells her husband she would like the locks changed again in the morning because the “gangbanger” locksmith with the “prison tattoos” is going to sell their keys to one of his “homies”. She then walks into the all

At last it was a dark night,and Pete Van Horn was walking back from Downtown, and the mob thought he was an alien.then charlie thought he was an alien

Once Kelvin finished cleaning up his mess he goes back outside then a hybrid car zooms into his driveway. Two men get out and show him their badges to show that they are undercover cops. The two men start talking to Kelvin saying that they got a report of a murder taking place and they asked if it was him, Kelvin replied with yes. The officers lunged at him, putting handcuffs around his small wrists. The officers asked Kelvin to read a paper, but being illiterate, he couldn’t, so they read it to him.

“Oh my goodness, what just happened?” questioned Bob. After a while of wondering what had just happened and if he was still alive, Bob started to feel sick like he was dying. He decided it was best for him to go home and isolate himself from the work he does at his job. On his way home, Bob made the decision that he was going to quit his job the next day, because this had

The guy pulled out a gun, and looked at him and said, “I’m not playing. It’s either your money or your life.” Jack froze as he looked at the barrel of that gun.” The mugger begin to get angry, he said, “didn’t you hear what I said, what are you waiting for. For the last time, as he shoved the gun closer to his head, it’s your money or your life.” Jack said, “well I’m thinking about which one I want to give up.”

So far what I have read is a 12 year old boy named Scrub is going to visit his grandmother but scrub thinks that his grandmother just own a bed and breakfast but he doesn't know that his grandmother's customers are actually aliens.How he found out was,he was going to the market to get supplies for his grandmother and when he looked at the supplies they aren't normal things some people might get.One of the things that catch his eyes was 50 boxes of tinfoil. When he arrive at the bed and breakfast one of the aliens that Scrub didn't know at the time came out and took one of the boxes of tinfoil and took a sheet of tinfoil wrapped it in a ball and ate it.When Scrub's grandmother came out she took Mr.Harnox the alien back in the house and told

jefferson tilted his head and asked judy “so,why did you never leave boring?” judy didn't move she simply replied “ i don't know , maybe fear anxiety” jefferson replied “anxiety of what?” judy lay silent but then stood up and let go of jefferson's hand “is that a ,cave?” she pointed “yeah I guess it is “ then jefferson stood up . the couple proceed to walk to the cave . when they arrived at the gaping hole in the side on moose mountain they peaked in . there stood one man and one woman the man was holding a phone to his ear “he wants to talk to you scully” the woman looked angered then proceeded to quietly yell mulder through her teeth “yes I understand ,mhmh yeah we'll do that right away.” she hung up and said to the man “we got a go “ the woman said as they ran out of the cave and up to there car not noticing the two civilians and when they were some distance away they went in the cave to see what was happening and there laid an ...ALIEN?!?! “what” exclaimed jefferson almost out of breath but before judy could say anything she heard one agent yell “freeze on the ground!” they looked at each other and ran and didn't stop no they ran to there car and kicked the ignition and drove

The book starts off with a retired detective named "Hodge". Hodge has always been one of the best detectives but before he retired their was one case him and his partner could never solve. One early morning at 5, people were lined up for a job fair hoping that they would find a job to keep them out of the streets, but what they ended up with was the total opposite.That foggy morning a Mercedes-Benz flew threw the crowed killing and injuring several, when the newspaper got out the picture was of a smiley face with sunglasses covering the Mercedes logo, the killer thought it was all a joke. When Ex-Detective Hodges receives a letter from "The Mercedes Killer", telling him that he had a rush killing all those people and that he was waiting for him to find him made the Ex-Detective want to find "the one who got away" even worse.

Ty went to check on the hidden camera footage on what happened. Then he saw the famous Dr. Eryk at his living room with a knife in his hand but, why would he kill her. Why now near his twentieth birthday? So Ty called the police and told them over the phone that a murder just happened and Dr. Eryk is the main suspect. A few moments later after he called the police they came to his house. They came with Ty to look at the hidden camera room.

As the aliens came out they challenge the humans to a soccer match. They humans where teleported to a place in a forest and there was a soccer field. There were only three more minutes in till the match starts. The three minutes where over time to start the game. The humans started with the ball. Messi the right wing was coming to make a goal for the humans. He cross it to Miguel headers it to the goalie

Jose comes up with a plan to blackmail his boss at the hotel and steal money from the rich, but corrupted hotel guest. The plan works until the COLONEL chases them. The police stop them, they are beaten, and then their newfound money is stolen.

With nobody else around on the street, the girl explains to the man that she's kind of lost and stranded and is just looking for some help with money so she can get home. The man asks her. "do you really need to get home or do you just want to make some money". At this point it's easy to think the man is nice and just wondering if the girl is genuine. Then things to a turn for the worst. He then states "if you just want t some money, we can go down to my place and I'll get it".

Mark and his boyfriend went on their way to go practice kata. In the middle of it, Mark tripped over a slippery patch of the floor. Someone watching nearby laughed and said*, “Bro, can you even karate?” “Hey, leave my boyfriend alone!” Andrew exclaimed. “Boyfriend? What’s a boyfriend?” the alien said. “Oh right, one of those things,” the alien said after a moment, “I forgot you silly humans have genders,” And the alien walked away. “Welp, ok then,” Andrew said and he and Mark resumed their practice.

The centipede went into a hotel and stopped in some elderly ladies room and started doing her work out with her then Brenner caught up with it and the centipede jumped out of the window and almost ate a kid but Brenner shot it from the back and killed it. It gets better because the kid like, “Who are you mister?” and Brenner said, “I'm just a loser who played video games as a kid.” I honestly don't know why that conversation was so funny because the kid finished it off with, “Well thank God for that”. It was time for celebration, but five minutes into the celebration the aliens issued the next challenge which was Pac-Man so back to work.