Brian Doyle-Murray

Red Wind: Short Story Review “Red Wind” is a short story from Raymond Thornton Chandler’s novel collection “Trouble is My Business”. Chandler is a famous mystery thriller writer, and his writing style and idea have significant affections to today’s detective stories. Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago, Illinois. Although he wanted to be a good writer, his mother and grandmother insisted him to be a civil servant. After having an oil business for many years, he was fired because of…

Sherlock and Elementary Whoever is a Sherlock Holmes fan, has at least heard of the modern TV series that started, and are about the life of the famous Londoner Detective. I’m talking about the BBC’s Sherlock and CBS’s Elementary. Sherlock is a series started by BBC with its first episode in July 2010. There is this modern detective called Sherlock Holmes, he’s tall, handsome looking guy, who is an asocial sociopath, whose deducting skills are extraordinaire but his social skills are the…

Framed! by James Ponti, is a mystery fiction novel. This book takes place at a museum in Washington D.C at present time. The situation is at the FBI office, where a young boy tries to solve a crime case of a famous painting that was stolen. The main characters in this story are Florian Bates and Margaret. Florian, an ordinary 7th grader, had just moved to Washington D.C from Romania. His first friend he makes in Washington is a girl named Margaret, who is also a 7th grader from the school…

Lucas Donisi Mrs. Penn Honors Literacy 08 November 2016 Hound of the Baskervilles Essay There are many things in this world that draw us to mystery. The book The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one that draws you in with its mysterious characters and story. From a big demonic hound to a criminal in the moor there are many clues in this book. While reading we'll be looking at the clues in main story, setting, characters, and finally the writing technique of the…

Article 1 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is better called master consulting detective Sherlock Holmes' founder. All these reports appeared within the String magazine from 1891 to 1927, several created by Sidney Paget's famous images in serialised form. There's been a contemporary meaning of the investigative duo using the BBC Tv series Sherlock, starring Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Series 1 was televised in the next sequence as well as in 2012, with recording of the third currently underway…

that his characters wore were consistent with what was actually being worn in that time period and the people involved in crime solving in his stories were also involved in reality. The scenery and vehicles were also very similar. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born May 22, 1859 in Edinburg, Scotland. He was married twice. His first wife was Louisa Hawkins who died in 1906. A year after Louisa’s death he married his second wife Jean Leckie. Between his two wives he had five children, Mary Louise,…

Moving on to the appearance of detective genre on the screen, Maloney claims that filming in the early 1900s was rather basic, as of being almost dependent on images and visual elements. The actors had to rely on their costumes, facial expressions and the set to be able to get the message across to the audience. After 1903 and 1906 the film industry flourished, describes Maloney, and new techniques and equipment such as the mobile camera, the close-up and the editing of the films was introduced.…

The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb was published by the Strand Magazine in 1892, and was the ninth short Sherlock Holmes story composed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of the Engineer's Thumb starts in 1889 after Watson's marriage. Victor Hath Hatherley is an engineer who has had his thumb cut off. Watson exhorts that they see Sherlock Holmes and the two men go to Baker Street, and Hatherley discloses to them how it happened. In the short story,…

Through the silent film Buster Keaton Sherlock Jr.(1924) the filmmaker managed to portray Sherlock Jr's vaudevillist roots by imposing a deadpanning persona centered on burlesque comedy. The protagonist Sherlock Jr did not show any emotional reactions instead he performed actions that would alter laughter to the viewers. These actions would be out of innocence, and his unawareness would result in laughter. For instance, when Sherlock Jr. imitated every movement the culprit of the watch did in…

when she goes sleuthing. Bess and George may not think the same way Nancy does, but they do provide a helping hand to her while solving a mystery. Bess and George much resemble Dr. Watson in The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watson, Marvin and Fayne both contribute a different point of view to Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew, respectively, to observations about a mystery. Without Watson's assistance Holmes would not have been able to solve the mystery of the…