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on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...
alive to confirm conversations nor recording equipment to verify accuracy. However, an author writing historic fiction must do a g...
literature, for he is only telling his story. For example, he states such things as "I began thinking about my friend the other da...
possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...
machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...
of winning her own way in the larger society and from the beginning, the character generally takes herself very lightly (19). She ...
are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...
In eight pages this paper examines the messages that exist within horror or ghost stories. Eleven sources are cited in the biblio...
judgements about his surroundings came as naturally as breathing, yet he was raised with a cultural model that stressed that child...
book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...
starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...
on a fateful September day. The aftermath of this watershed moment - inclusive of the ever-present criminal lures that only capit...
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...
old Jimmy Ray Payne and twenty-seven year old Nathaniel Cater (Breed, 2005). Williams had been apprehended in the cases largely a...
white police intrusion into the black community. Himes pictures Harlem as having a uniquely black character, which means that its ...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
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...
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 first person narration, he sees only what the detective sees, as he or she sees it. Hammett opens his novel with a physical des...
searching to wade through the junk, the rants, the personal opinions and the outraged screaming from both ends of the political sp...
now, that is. While Sgt. Pepper was enjoying his night off at the local tavern, he became a little too friendly with the barmaid ...
to the use of some narcotic" (A Seven-Percent Solution, 2003). Holmes was, in his private life, a moody individual who had begun ...
stories(Rollason, 1988). There is, of course, the same typical Poe elements, the triumph of rational reasoning, the superiority ...
role after years as a Warner contract player" (Galloway, 2002; maltesefalcon.shtml). As we can see from this simple description...
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...
by the brilliance and deductive reasoning that the detective uses. Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot is reminiscent of a brilliant d...
taking his time. He halts, turns to one wall where the current wallpaper is torn away to reveal flowery wallpaper underneath. So...
In five pages Poe's detective tale is examined in terms of the protagonist's superior class attitudes that are revealed when he in...