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    Zouroudi. The series is composed of seven books that came out between 2007 and 2013. Hermes is an enigmatic character that takes after the Greek messenger god that usually wears golden winged sandals. Hailing from Athen Hermes Diaktoros is a portly detective that everyone refers to as fat man. Arriving unannounced at the scenes of crime, nobody knows who sent him, what his motivations are, and how he seems to know people’s secrets. He fuels the enigmatic narrative when he compulsively maintains and wears

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    Observation: Sherlock Holmes would have spent hours analysing and ordering the discoveries he previously made, even if they were just trifles. He possessed a great gift of being able to see all niceties that were hidden from the eyes of not attentive who couldn’t put them together so they make sense. “He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen,” said Watson (Doyle, 139) “You see, but you do not observe.” (Doyle, 142) Knowledge: He used his knowledge

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    old brewery--the very building where the Star-Spangled Banner was sewn in 1813. A student buys a sandwich called the Last American Pirate and unearths the long-forgotten tale of Edward Owens, who terrorized the Chesapeake Bay in the 1870s. These stories have two things in common. They are all tailor-made for viral success on the internet. And they are all lies. Each tale was carefully fabricated

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    Charles Bravo's Murder

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    The Victorian era was when the idea of modern crime became prominent. People were fascinated by Charles Bravo’s murder and many other cases like it. Readers of the paper were engrossed by the details of the court proceedings and made their own assumptions about who the true murderer was. In the book when Ruddick is discussing the possibility of Florence murdering her husband with the tartar emetic, he finds many other examples of wives accidentally killing their husbands with a poison. Ruddick discovered

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    What happens when you cross Sherlock with Veronica Mars with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? You get Trouble is a Friend of Mine, but the questions you really want to know the answers to are: 1. does the book warrant those comparisons? and 2. is it actually good? Well, I’m glad you stopped by. Trouble is a Friend of Mine follows Zoe Webster, who recently moved to River Heights with her mom after her parents divorced, and Philip Digby, a suit-wearing teenager who befriends Zoe and ropes her into his investigation

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    Tandy Angel Trust

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    Who to Trust? Contrary to what many people think, not every mystery novel is one for readers to solve, in fact, James Patterson’s and Maxine Paetro’s Confessions of a Murder Suspect forces readers to think about whether they can trust the evidence of the murder case presented before them. In the novel, Tandy Angel is narrating the case of her parent’s death, who both died due to poison while sleeping in the bedroom of their mansion. Tandy and her siblings are the suspected killers because of the

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    often considered as the queen of, commonly present a complex and confusing cast of characters which through the efforts of the detective/narrator/reader, then become organised groups of people who are good and bad, who belong to black or white, alibis sorted into two sides of complete contrast. Generally, there are one or two criminals and numerous victims in a typical detective novel. However, in Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, the cast of characters all have a similar trait: they are all

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    it’s on an island, so when they needed help fast no one could get to the island fast enough to help. Another reason why it was a good setting was because if a storm broke out, no one could go to the island because it would be too dangerous. In the story, they did end up having a storm while they were on the island, (pg. 131). This was also a good setting because no one was around them, so if someone screamed no one would be able to hear them. This setting was a helped develope the conflict because

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    incriminating evidence that ties him to a terrorist plot. STORY COMMENTS The Enemy Upstairs is a compelling crime thriller that offers an excellent twist that the audience doesn’t see coming. The script offers a solid concept with the idea of a cop suspecting that his Middle-Eastern neighbor might be a terrorist. It’s the type of plotline that easily pulls the audience into this appealing mystery. What works so well is the idea that the story skillfully takes the audience down one path in which the

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    Who is the murderer in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time? This is an intriguing mystery book with lots of drama, but only if you're old enough to handle a lot of swearing and some sexual references, among other things. This book is not meant for children and shouldn't be available for the young audience to read. This book should be banned as it contains many inappropriate words, situations of violence and abuse, as well as a few sexual implications. Christopher is an autistic child

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