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Thomas Becket: A Biography

Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12...

Poe's The Raven

but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...

Dennis/Mystery of Marriage

relationship is now so broken that it feels "unfixable" (Dennis, 2005). She describes her options, i.e., to stay or leave, and the...

The Dystopian World of P.D. James

cousin, who has taken the title of the "Warden of England" (James). The title is apt, because England (and one must presume other ...

Who Killed William Robinson?

an account relayed in the Daily British Colombian on June 4, 1869 ("Who Killed," 2007). While the witness left the premises, he o...

Murder on Board

dirty clothes and reeking garbage make the atmosphere unbearable fairly quickly, and nobody wants to live in a toilet for the endl...

The Hardy Boys: The Secret of Skull Mountain

little hints to the truth of the mystery, as is the case with the Hardy Boys mysteries as well as most mystery stories. Each chapt...

Three Short Stories and the Nature of Love

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

When Death Comes Stealing by Valerie Wilson Wesley

son in light of the murders, becomes incredibly immersed in solving the crimes and becomes immersed in many different social and m...

The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes

white police intrusion into the black community. Himes pictures Harlem as having a uniquely black character, which means that its ...

Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Its Mystery

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

Grace and Its Mystery in 'Revelation,' 'Good Country People,' 'Greenleaf' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

is true of the character Joy/Hulga in "Good Country People." Joy/Hulga has a heart condition, which prevents her from living the...

Physical World View of Dante

Aristotle. The sky is of course something that perhaps is significant in esoteric matters. After all, the sky is quite provocativ...

Dennis Werner and Jody Glittenberg on Anthropology

the oppression, the terror and the overwhelming sense of helplessness which sometimes overtook them. Dennis Werners "Amaz...

Social Class, Wealth, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

story, alone, offers the point of view of someone who was at one time considered untouchable and of indisputable character: the do...

A Raisin in the Sun Analysis

out, and if there will actually be a winner in the end. Most viewers will hope that Mama will be the one to decide. She is the w...

Mystery Short Story and Editing Technique Sample

cigarette dangling out of the corner of his mouth, and a tie that had been loosened to hang limply against his shirt stood in fron...

'Mystery of' William Shakespeare's Hamlet

hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...

Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Building of Mystery, Suspense, and Horror

quiet sense of mystery introduces us to the events. We gain a sense of suspense and a bit of mystery in the fact that Mr. Utter...

Bermuda Triangle and its 'Mystery'

occurrences. What happened in 1945 seems to have been a combination of pilots error, ego, bad weather, faulty equipment and incred...

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

In the end, what emerges is the realization that it was quite possibly Henry VII that used various tactics to blacken the name of...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Symbolism Associated with the Whale

curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these...

Facts and Fiction Regarding Jack the Ripper

believed to be the Rippers fist victim (Bonderson, 2001). Emma Smith, Martha Turner, and Rose Mylett were once believed to have f...

S.J. Rozan's The Stone Quarry

may be deleted or separated from this sample. Introduction Almost all of us love mysteries. And even though we say to ourselv...

Stonehenge and Its Mysteries

as Stonehenge proper. This consists of a group of stones which once stood upright, but are now in circular patterns (Trefil 48). ...

The Second Shepherd's Play and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'

if John were easily deceived, Nicholas (the clerk) and Alison (his wife) would not have been forced to devise an complicated plan ...

Charles Dickens Bleak House and Elements of Mystery

Carstone, to attempt to solve the generations-long Chancery suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce (Dickens). There is little that is myste...

Short Story of Suspense Novel Construct

other words it compels the reader to say, "What?!" or "Whoah. What happens next?" or "Wow, how did this happen?" Any combination ...

Life and Career of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa

department store stock boy, then working in the warehouse at Krogers, a Detroit grocery store chain. This was the age of the Grea...

Lack of Conclusion in Short Story Mysteries by V. Nabokov and M. Atwood

ended as they could have logically ended. So, too, it must be stated that this spelling out of the ending of the mysteries is a ...