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    The birth of classic detective fiction was originated just in the mid nineteenth century, and was producing its own genre. Classical detective fiction follows a set of rules called the ‘Ten commandments of detective fiction’. The genre is so popular it can bee seen by the number of sales in any good book stores. Many of these books have been created a long time ago and there is still a demand for these types of books. The popularity is still ongoing because it provides constant entertainment, and

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    The first one is the ‘island mode’, which later contributed a lot to Japanese detective storywriters. This mode has a very well-known representative, the novel “And then there were none”, originally named “Ten little Indians”, Christie creates ten different main characters of different social status, who are lured into coming to an

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    sub-genres of detective fiction and hard-boiled fiction is one of them. What exactly is hard-boiled detective fiction? Hard-Boiled detective fiction is fiction that features tough, cynical, urban private eyes who expose corruption and frequently get injured in the course of their investigations ("Detective Fiction," Literary). Hard-Boiled fiction is considered one of the more popular sub-genres of detective fiction; there have been numerous films and novels about urban detectives exposing corruption

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    how scared you are, you most likely wouldn’t change your story multiple times. Unless you were hiding something. Jay’s first inconsistency comes when Jennifer Pusateri is introduced. Jennifer Pusateri is not a friend of Adnan but is a friend of Jay’s. In episode 4 when Jennifer is being questioned, she states, “Detective: Jay wasn't along when the body was buried? Jennifer Pusateri: In my opinion, no. In my understanding – Detective: – But he's thrown away all of his clothes and he's wiping

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    Female Characters in The Long Goodbye: Typical Images of Women in the Noir World As one of the most famous hard-boiled crime fictions, The Long Goodbye enjoys its reputation not only for the story itself, but also for its delicate social criticism. In fact, this novel is representative of how female characters are formed in the noir world. There are basically three main female characters in the book: the victim Sylvia Lennox, her sister Linda Loring, and the criminal (or villain) Eileen Wade. These

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    Agatha Christie Ethos

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    Christie are pioneers of the detective genre who both used the shared conventions of classical detective – ethos of a supreme detective and false suspect – to help create an enticing detective story. To establish the ethos of a supreme detective, the narrator, customarily a sidekick, describes the detective as an outlier who has superb analytical thinking skills, does not emotionally get attached to a case, and always solves the case. In addition to giving the detective a godly stature, it is typical

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    Cold Murders Book Report

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    Two private detectives find their lives in danger after a cold murder case reveals a secret international ring of jewel thieves. Retired LAPD officers, Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. The two couples have little in common-until they are both hired to do damage control on the same murder case in which, after a torrential rain the previous spring, the body of James Ballantine

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    would create a female protagonist, but would undermine their abilities and the character itself. The female detectives would play the part of a good amature dectective, but at the end of the story they would come to some kind of realization that detective work is not suitable for a women, and then would be married off. In Anna Green’s, That Affair Next Door, she writes about a detective by the name of Miss. Butterworth, who would come to surpass her predecessors. In the novel, Miss. Butterworth

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    Death Cloud By Andrew Lane The book I read was “Death Cloud” by Andrew Lane, it is about when Sherlock Holmes started detective work. Most of us know about the great detective that Sherlock Holmes was known as, but have you ever wondered how he got that way. This book gives you the opportunity to find out the past behind the genius detective. I chose this book because I like Sherlock Holmes. This book changed my outlook by taking a character I already knew about and cared for. Sherlock Holmes has

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    Sam Spade And Marlowe

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    something dealing with detectives, as an observer, you must always pay attention to the actions of the characters. The characters are what makes detective stories mysterious, because each character is looked upon as a suspect and for the detective to figure out a solution, he must study everyone 's actions, changes in their mood and character and once a detective has found something that leads him to his culprit, he would have solved his investigation. From this the detective is given the “whodunit”

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