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Good Detective Fiction and a Consideration of The Adventures of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...

Logic in the Sherlock Holmes' Tale 'Adventure Of The Speckled Band' by Arthur Conan Doyle

In this paper containing three pages the employment of the scientific method by the famed sleuth is considered with each investiga...

Mark Twain and Morality

(Roth, 682). As in its sequel, Huckleberry Finn, the boys frequently have more innate wisdom in their ingenuousness than the adult...

Contrasts Between the World Perspectives of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Wf Walter Mosley

In 6 pages this paper examines the contrasting worldviews featured in the detective works White Butterfly by Walter Mosley and The...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Mysteries' The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Red Headed League, and The Adventure of the Speckled Band

most minute of clues. (After all: "There is no vehicle save a dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you sit...

Massie Affair & Detective Fiction

PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...

Detective Fictuon and 'Silence of the Lambs' vs. 'Oedipus the King'

In a research paper consisting of 6 pages, the two works of good and evil are considered within the context of detective fiction. ...

Life and Writings of Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain

night and by day. For about four years, Twain worked as a river pilot. He enjoyed the work which provided constant excitement. He ...

Educational Leadership and American Literature

of referrals to these types of programs have resulted in the need to seek out better methods for enhancing educational leadership ...

Romantic Hero Sir Lancelot

without peer (Spivack and Lynne 95). Lancelot was originally introduced to readers in French poet Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or...

Essay on the Rock Band Ricky and the Red Freaks

Unfortunately, while Ricky is on stage splitting a vocal chord, his old band mates will only be able to deliver an instrumental re...

Literary Crime Fiction

In five pages this paper discusses how the crime fiction literary genre developed throughout the late 19th and early 20th centurie...

'Intermountain Acoustics' Bluegrass Band A Music Ethnography

In eight pages the five musicians that comprise the band Intermountain Acoustics are discussed....

Reason and Religion in Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke by examining the science and religion connection of t...

Roger Waters

Pink Anderson and Floyd Council" and the band got rid of their R&B sound (The Abdabs). In the beginning it appears as...

And The Band Played On

about the condition and how people slowly began to realize the different ways in which AIDS may be transmitted such as through sex...

Clever Women in Modern Detective Fiction

the standard framework for a mystery detective novel, each of these works share similar themes that are indicative of current Amer...

CSI, the Detective Genre, and "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

Crime Detection in the Works of John Dickson Carr, Edmund Crispin, and Agatha Christie

In five pages this paper examines detective crime fiction and how the readers are engaged in the detection of the crime in Carr's ...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

In six pages the ways in which this novel reflects the classic detective genre as established by Arthur Conan Doyle are considered...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett III

In six pages the ways in which Hammett's novel rejuvenated what had become by that time a tired detective fiction genre are explor...

Original Adventure Story 'Sun Solders'

and others call him "Prairie Dog." Why would someone call a squirrel a dog? Maybe they...

Peter Matthiessen's Far Tortuga

dem. De snipes is gone now. Aint no iguana left....Mahogany, logwood, fustic--all dat gone now! Dey cutting it all away!" North Am...

Assessment of Human Nature

the class they come from. The nautre is open and forgiving, they have short attention spans and any negative emotions are likely t...

Women's Roles in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

the strongest women in the piece are the goddess Pallas Athena and Penelope, Odysseuss wife. In addition, although her part was sm...

The Use of Irony by the Narrator in Ambiguous Adventure

Diallo as a character would grow regardless of where he went to school. This is ironic as one would think that expanding ones hori...

Sir Samuel Hughes

Expeditionary Force" (Masterliness, 2008). From the information presented thus far it would seem that many admired and res...

Winston Churchill’s Ancestry

3), which stem from Lady Frances Vane, wife of the 7th Duke of Marlborough" (Daniels, 2009). Daniels (2009), however, discusses on...

Mid Twentieth Century Sierra Leone Decolonization and Nationalism

became the elite of the country, marginalizing the remaining portions of the population. And while the freed slaves constituted t...

Khaled Hosseini, Mark Twain, and Harper Lee on Childhood

I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warnt man enough--hadnt the spunk of a rabbit. I see I was weakeni...