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    Murder's Stellar Audiovisual Design When the player has little-to-no direct influence over proceedings, it runs the risk of feeling lifeless--like you're simply staring at a low-poly painting. Thankfully, Murder remains engrossing throughout, in large part due to its audiovisual design. Murder's electronic soundtrack--complete with wavy synths and infectious rhythms--compliments both the immediate action on screen and overall narrative. Please excuse the poor wording, but KubixXx' soundtrack…

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    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a crime-filled novel which can be looked at from various perspectives. We must use a sociological perspective to examine these crimes due to the vast amount of crimes that occur, the way in which they are discovered, and the way in which they occur. The social conditions under which these crimes occur also contributes to a better understanding of the crimes themselves. This novel portrays libel, serial murder, sexual assault, rape, and white-collar crime. It…

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    Matthew Osley Mrs. Van Fechtmann Turnitin Notes Chapters 10-13 Chapter 10 Vera and Lombard have a chat. Vera does not suspect Lombard as the murderer and vice versa. Lombard suggests Justice Wargrave (both executioner and judge) Vera suggests Armstrong (2 deaths by poison couldn’t have been a coincidence) Blore says he suspects someone on the island, but he won’t explain who it is. Armstrong thinks everyone will die in their beds. Emily is in her room and feels in a groggy mood while writing…

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    We conceive that Queenie is guilty of murdering Arthur. To begin with, in the scene, when we arrived to investigate at the Volupedis home at 1:30am, approximately 20 minutes after Queenie found we found Arthur Volupedis lying at the bottom of the stairs, and his wife Queenie was gazing in shock at him. We noticed that the kitchen stove and light were on and Arthur has on a suit underneath his robe. According to Queenie, she stated that she was supposedly at the club where all of her friends said…

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    ‘NCIS’ season 14, episode 3 review: Gibbs’ team solved staged suicide, Agent Fornell slowly gets well NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs definitely had his team working double time on Tuesday night. Faced with a case that appeared as a suicide at first glance, the team started taking a closer look after Doctor Grace Confalone suggested that the marine sergeant’s tragic fall from a building wasn’t a jump, but she might have been pushed. Unable to help the team until the marine sergeant died,…

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    Murdered by James Schannep is an interactive mystery novel. The reader is the main character and the one that determines how the story will unfold and what actions he will take to progress in the story. The only consistent element of the story is how the story begins. The protagonist is separated from his friends in the unknown city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He finds his way into a side street and by accident discovers a body of a young woman. From there on the story unfolds from the choices…

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    While reading gothic literature, there are many horrifying elements that lead to a sense of doom. In the novel, And Then There Were None, and the short story, “The Bottomless Grave,” there is a sense of inhumanity that leads to a sense of doom. . Both stories have inhumane events and the killer in each story manipulates the characters into actually killing the victims. In addition, these pieces of writing have some differences. In And Then There Were None, the killer had a reason for killing…

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    gothic feel. However in And Then There Were None the suspicion is built up with each death while in “The Temple” suspicion is built up with sounds the woman is hearing. The tone of And Then There Were None had a dark and sinister tone. For example Christie uses the setting to help with the tone by making it on a far off island where it storms. This creates a conflict in the plot which adds to the story. The tone of “The Temple” is mysterious.…

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    Peter Moorhead's Murder

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    Peter Moorhead's Murder is an interactive short story featuring a strong artistic direction and merges visual novel and point-and-click adventure game mechanics in its storytelling. Will the forty-minute inaugural episode of this philosophical cyberpunk murder mystery leave you wanting more? A Cyberpunk Murder Mystery Set In Tokyo Murder's first episode serves an intriguing basis for future episodes, and on its own it is enjoyable and definitely worth the relatively low price of admission.…

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    “Invitation to Murder” Situational Irony Essay “Invitation to Murder” is a short story filled with suspense and mystery written by Josh Pachter. The setting is in New York during modern times. Branigan, an investigator, had a strange letter sent to him under the name of Eleanor Abbott. The invitation was fancy with the color of black rimmed around the edges. It had an address, time, and specific day printed on it. The most inexplicable part of the letter stated “Impending murder of her husband,…

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