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old Jimmy Ray Payne and twenty-seven year old Nathaniel Cater (Breed, 2005). Williams had been apprehended in the cases largely a...
her friends are at a diner of sorts, prior to the scene with her father, where all the kids hang out, she is laughed at by some yo...
searching to wade through the junk, the rants, the personal opinions and the outraged screaming from both ends of the political sp...
the details of case - even to the point of coming off as offensive and brash - was construed out of a need for a more meaty type o...
which Friday took his strategy, this case would likely not have ever seen the inside of a courtroom; however, the intricate web of...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
white police intrusion into the black community. Himes pictures Harlem as having a uniquely black character, which means that its ...
now, that is. While Sgt. Pepper was enjoying his night off at the local tavern, he became a little too friendly with the barmaid ...
in first person narration, he sees only what the detective sees, as he or she sees it. Hammett opens his novel with a physical des...
This book review is on "The Century of the Detective," a classic text by Jurgen Thorwald. The writer presents an overall view of t...
In ten pages this paper examines the issue of race within the context of this infamous murder case with the focus being on the beh...
In six pages the ways in which this novel reflects the classic detective genre as established by Arthur Conan Doyle are considered...
In five pages this paper examines the detective literary genre and how this work represents it as well as deviates from it by alwa...
In five pages Poe's detective tale is examined in terms of the protagonist's superior class attitudes that are revealed when he in...
In this paper that contains five pages the examination of a murder mystery that features favorite Christie protagonist Detective H...
it. He disposes of his deceased colleagues desk, nameplate and widow in quick measure. Naturally, since the police are aware of ...
In 7 pages this paper examines the evolution of the teen detective Nancy Drew and considers how young girls were influenced by thi...
In 6 pages this paper examines the contrasting worldviews featured in the detective works White Butterfly by Walter Mosley and The...
This research paper/essay examines a detective novel by Walter Mosley and whether or not an African American writer can examine co...
In five pages this paper examines the detective story as it relates to the life of its author Edgar Allan Poe. Nine sources are c...
role after years as a Warner contract player" (Galloway, 2002; maltesefalcon.shtml). As we can see from this simple description...
to the use of some narcotic" (A Seven-Percent Solution, 2003). Holmes was, in his private life, a moody individual who had begun ...
In five pages the many differences between Chandler's detective novel and Howard Hawks' 1946 big screen interpretation are examine...
This paper contrasts and compares various female characters throughout the history of literature which includes Lysistrata, Jane E...
by the brilliance and deductive reasoning that the detective uses. Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot is reminiscent of a brilliant d...
detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...
the tall gangly Holmes. He was short, bald and sported a rather large mustache. He was a bit of a clothes horse and more than a bi...
stories(Rollason, 1988). There is, of course, the same typical Poe elements, the triumph of rational reasoning, the superiority ...
In five pages the private eye with a love of cocaine and morphine are considered in this examination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1...
In seven pages this paper discusses such global events as sect to established religion transition, Medieval Christianity and Europ...