Crime fiction

novel was hailed as a success, getting to know more about Agatha Christie’s work and to go in depth on this masterpiece. MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976) is considered the grand dame of British detective, mystery and crime fiction novels. The dozens of literary works she wrote turned her into one of the most widely read novelists of all times. According to what Chris Ewers quoted in his article Genre in Transit: Agatha Christie, Trains, and the Whodunit, Agatha’s…

David Videcette is a British detective mystery writer best known for writing the DI Jake Flannagan series of novels. He is a former Scotland Yard Detective with the London Metropolitan Police who specialized in organized crime and terrorism. During a career spanning more than two decades he has tracked down many dangerous criminals, interviewed numerous witnesses, and searched hundreds of properties. Today he puts that knowledge into use in writing the DI Jake Flannagan series of novels. The…

After viewing the non-fiction media documentary, Making a Murderer, and listening to the non-fiction media podcast, Serial. I have seen two underage males be sentenced to life in prison for their actions in separate cases involving a death. I believe that it is right to punish teens for what they’ve done. If it’s a major crime like murder or others that have a similar consequence, then the teens should get the same amount of time in jail as adults. When should teen offenders receive life…

The Knight and Culverhouse Series is a popular series of crime thriller novels by American author Adam Croft. Even as Croft only started writing the first in the series of novels, Too Close for Comfort in 2010, 6 novels in the series were published in quick succession up to book 6. The series of novels have the fast pace and engrossing storylines and could be best compared to the works of Mark Edward, Stephen Leather, or Simon Kernick. The novels feature two protagonists Detective Sargent Wendy…

Group-Generated WFQ: How does detective fiction build tension through the use of clues and disguises? How is structural tension built with these elements of detective fiction? Hot and Cold Trails Clues and disguises build structural tension in detective fiction by throwing off the reader, tossing them back and forth between clarity of mind and clouded judgment, like the push and pull of ocean waves. Clues often allow the reader to start to unravel a mystery in their mind while disguises are…

Minimalism, in essence, is describing the most, in the least words possible. The art of literary minimalism seeded around 1960s and 1970s, a result of the then ongoing meta-fiction trend. There are some beliefs that minimalism in prose was actually initiated by the 1940s crime-fiction writers like James M. Cain, the writings of whom were imbued with the least of words and yet put forth a description of many. However, literary minimalism was brought to center-stage (this is the general agreement…

the detective themselves. The different detecting skills. An additional quality is who the detective was helping (the client), the characters, where the murders took place and who committed the murder. Poe’s story introduces a new genre of short fiction in American literature along with brain teaser story line. In Doyle’s story, is an interesting…

The daily life of an incarcerated individual is spent wasting away the hours, searching for a glimpse of hope in their personal lives. The media, especially in the film industry, has portrayed what can be defined as a “utopian” life, as life outside of prison, a complete opposite of the dystopian characteristics of being incarcerated. The search for a “utopian” lifestyle is “analogous to a quest for grace which is both existential and relational” (Klonowska). To an average person, an…

during the start of primary school. It instantly became the subject I liked the most. But what drew my interest to forensic science was reading my first crime fiction novel by the author James Patterson and also a module I studied in high school in year 7 called CSI. From then on my curiosity and interest only grew so I started to watch crime fiction programmes and documentaries like Forensic Files, going on trips to universities and museums and started to read more books and articles from…

reality. Television is the most influential of all of these and that is especially true when it comes to the world of forensic science. There are so many shows on television, whether they are reality or scripted that cover this particular genre such as Crime Scene Investigation, Law and Order, Forensic Files, and NCIS just to name a few. All of these shows believe it or not, have had a negative effect on many aspects of the criminal justice system. So many of these shows on television glamorize…