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    The World’s Only (Autistic) Consulting Detective: A Sherlock Holmes Story It had been exactly two minutes since they had entered the flat, and he already knew there was something wrong. His chair was at a different angle, his violin on the other side of the room, his papers stacked up into neat piles, and that wasn’t the only thing. His books had been in alphabetical order by publisher, yet he now found them alphabetized by author. How was he supposed to find his books now? His drawer of perfectly

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    Detective Licht scratched his beard and loosened his tie while he marched into the death scene. The current location was 45 Justice Street apartment 4G, a run down building with a lazy security guard and only one elevator. Detective Schatten, Licht’s partner, walked out of a room and nodded at the man, his hand continued to scribble on his mini notepad. “What we got here?” Detective Licht asked while he surveyed the living room, where the victim was found dead on the couch. There were bottles

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    Throughout the semester, we have read several different detective stories, looking into each detective’s characteristics, as well as the characteristics of supporting characters, examining how detectives are able to solve the case when nobody else can. Each detective we have read this semester has different ways to solve a crime, but there are also ways to connect these different detectives. Based on the examples of Sergeant Cuff in The Moonstone, Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles

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    The Shot Of A Gun

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    calls the police about an odd smell coming from the apartment above her. Within the hour, there’s a whole police team in the fifth floor apartment, including forensic investigators, ballistics experts, crime scene photographers, and homicide detectives. The detectives observe the body and then go to search for a bullet. They notice the window by the fire escape open a crack, and have one of their team dust for fingerprints. After identifying the victim, they head back to their offices to drop off the

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    The Homocide Detectives

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    The Homicide Detectives Mohammad K. Hussain Sarah (Centre) – Main Detective, graduated from Ryerson University. Tough, alert and abrupt, apart from being beautiful and a good person, great daughter and soon to be a great wife… Lizzy (right) – Autopsy Doctor, PhD. From Stanford national forensic institute. Geeky, straight forward and a loving mother of two. Jennifer (left) – Intern from Harvard, partner of Sarah, sizzling young beauty with brains, shopaholic and a party girl.

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    been ransacked, presence of metal shavings, a degasser, and a computer that has a missing hard drive. Later, another detective finds a suspected suicide in front of a church. Next to the body, three cigarette buttswere found, and when they search the church, they find a candlestick, part of a tooth that came from the victim, and a letter. After questioning potential witnesses, detectives eventually find a burned car that has the body of the stockbroker inside of it. They also find a gun, the missing

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    iron bar railing. The hotel was quite large as well, with a hollow middle so you can see all the way to the ground floor from the seventh-floor hallway. It has a huge skylight in the roof. The whole hotel has been closed for this meeting and only detectives and staff are allowed in and out of this

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    Daugherty Case Summary

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    On Friday, December 16, 2016, at 5:40 PM, Officers Patrick Daugherty and Frank Miller were working a uniformed assignment in cruiser 9022, and were dispatched to 1464 E. 26th Ave., on a report of a 10-34, involving an individual who was possibly deceased in the backyard of the residence. While driving to the location, Officers Daugherty and Miller received information from radio, indicating the caller’s husband was cold to the touch, not breathing, and had possibly been attacked by their dog.

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    and Detectives supervise and assign duties to the police force. Leadership is key in this job as well as other skills such as monitoring, good communication, and making decisions.The importance of the career will help me think about my future plans after high school and what it takes to achieve these goals. This career interests me because it suits my personality and skills.Therefore, I have come to my senses after researching that my career interest is a supervisor for police and detectives because

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    officer for at least ten years I plan on moving to the homicide department. I want to finish out my career as a homicide detective. When I was 15 years old my father was murdered. I know firsthand how important homicide detectives are to families. We depended heavily on our team of detectives to find out what happened to my father and to find out who murdered him. The homicide detectives worked day in and day out until the case was solved. I cannot thank these men and women enough. They helped bring my

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