Essay on Mystery

Chapter-1 Introduction Agatha Christie is reputably known throughout the world as the ‘Queen of Crime’. The Guinness Book of Records cites her as the second best-selling author of all time after William Shakespeare. She also has the honour of being the most widely translated author of all time after William Shakespeare. In 1952, her play The Mousetrap was debuted at the ambassador’s Theatre in London, and has been performed without a break ever since. The Mousetrap was initially performed…

in Detective Comics #49. Peter J. Tomasi provides the script for Fernando Pasarin’s illustrations. The two give us a tale that takes us back to the golden age adventures of the Caped Crusader when he not only dished out a good beating but solved a mystery along the way. In Detective Comics #49, James Gordon is caught up in an cold case from his days on the force. He grapples with the new freedom he has as Batman to investigate the crimes of Gotham City…and the slippery slope that this freedom…

peculiar hexagonal shaped clouds (that veil the area) may be the answer to the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle (1). The Science Channel documentary has claimed that winds of 106 kilometres (per hour) are being generated by the hexagonal clouds. The wind act as air bombs that can knock aircraft out of the sky and submerged of vessels into the depths of the ocean (2). technically there's no solution to this mystery because the Bermuda Triangle is in real regardless of what people…

Fear and Horror Fills the Room Is death escapable? In these two stories death is the result of two different circumstances that don’t appear possible. The first story talks about an old mans irritation and how his actions play out against his own roommate. A vulture eye is what sparks the irritation in the narrator and what ultimately makes the narrator guilty of murder. On the other hand, in the second story, an illness that seems to be taking over the country destroys people inside a room…

One of Us Is Lying, a New York Times bestseller, is a crime and mystery novel crafted by Karen McManus. The story starts out with five high profile students from Bayview high all in detention for something none of them have done. McManus made each character to be unique and described them as, “Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the…

The 11:05 Murders is a hard-boiled crime mystery novel built around the work of Inspector Sheehan. Written by Brian O’Hare, It belongs to volume two of the Inspector Sheehan Mysteries and is published by Crimson Cloak Publishing. This book is purely a work of fiction though it feels as if plucked from real-life events. The book revolves around mysterious murders that occur at 11:05 pm and follows WDS Denise Stewart, DCI Jim Sheehan and the rest of their team as they race against time to catch…

well. It is more obvious than Fellini’s work because Antonioni has a constant style that is represented through screenplay. In both Blow Up and L'Avventura the climax features a mystery. They both start off just as a drama but at the peak of the film it becomes a mysterious thriller. In Blow Up Antonioni creates mystery through murder after the main character; Thomas discovers a dead corpse in the negatives of his photos he took at the park. The film ends with the viewer wondering who the killed…

When assuming that the Governess is in fact sane and the ghosts are real, it can be argued that, in The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, the Governess is a traditional gothic novel heroine. She is portrayed as an ambitious, strong-willed, innocent and intelligent young woman who, similar to any heroine, is placed in a helpless situation in which she has to protect the children from supernatural forces. Similarly, it can be argued that Catherine Morland, the main protagonist in Jane Austen’s…

are many ingredients that go into the drink. Ingredients that I did know were water, sugar, salt, and citric acid. There were also several mystery ingredients that I did not know, such as Dextrose, Sodium Citrate, Monopotassium Phosphate, and Gum Arabic. This led me to research, what were these ingredients are all about. The first Ingredient that was a mystery to me was Dextrose. Research led me to discover its many uses, and popularity. Dextrose is a form of glucose, derived from starches,…

It all started with Ben & Jerry’s that fateful night in June. AnneMarie strutted over while the gang was busy solving mysteries and playing cards on the grass outside the dorm building. Beaming eyes portrayed to the gang a tale of risk. Or perhaps just a tale of delight when the goodies lounging in the white plastic bag she held were revealed, though this all went unnoticed by me. The game at hand had me enraptured until one ear became deaf from a shriek of glee. Glancing up and trying to…