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    In the previous writing, some predictions and assumptions get made. It says the secret book that Enishte and Black are working on could have revealed the murderer of Elegant. This writing also addresses the fact that each chapter within the book has a different narrator than the last. This writing was both incorrect and correct in some of the predicted facts about the secret book. It talks about how the book could somehow reveal the murderer of Elegant. After Enishte’s death, Black and Master…

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    Considering many reasons why the author Mark Haddon may have wanted to write this book "The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time." I have narrowed it down to about 2 to 3 reasons. I believe he most definitely wanted to different the most writers who write murder mystery novels. Unlike other writers of this genre he wrote about a murder of a dog which then twisted into a story about a conflicted family. The way he writes this book is also quite different, he labeled his chapter with…

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    interest. As the story progresses, readers can see the situational irony in this novella. The title itself was situational irony since it was an actual invitation to murder. Mrs. Abbott had sent out twelve invitations to famous investigators, judges, detectives, and private eyes. When Branigan arrived to the given address, he was guided to a dim room and recognized all of the other men in it. There was Ryan, from the Los Angeles Police Department, DiNapoli from San…

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    Joe Golem Occult Detective is a standalone novel by Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola. The first novel in the occult detective series of novels Joe Golem: Occult Detective otherwise known as Rat Catcher was first published 2015. The series of comic books is an adaptation of the story of Joe Golem from the novel Joe Golem and the Drowning City. Dave Palumbo the Spectrum award-winning painter did the covers while the graphics are by Patric Reynolds. The new series is set in a period before the…

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    madmen, murderers, mysteries, eccentric men and women and mysterious burials. His works were mainly published in the 1800s. He has written a lot of short stories, essays, novels, poetry etc and is considered to be a pioneer in the world of fiction stories and detective stories. He was a prominent American writer who made his living writing horror poetries and various mysterious stories and books. He had his own sense of innovations. He had short life span of 40 years where he contributed a lot…

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    understand why this 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…

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    compared to the works of Mark Edward, Stephen Leather, or Simon Kernick. The novels feature two protagonists Detective Sargent Wendy Knight and Detective Chief Inspector Jack Culverhouse. Over the course of the books, the two detectives are involved in the investigation of a series of bizarre murders that more or less look like serial killings. But what makes the Knight and Culverhouse…

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    Band. One quality is the narrator of the story. The narrators tell the story in their points of view. Another quality is 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…

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    Anne Rodway Murder

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    In the short story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator is depicted in a far more orthodox manner for the detective genre than the emotional, female narrator in Wilkie Collins’s “The Diary of Anne Rodway”. The unnamed narrator from Poe’s story lays out his mystery in a very factual manner for the reader to interpret. He describes the brutal scene of Madame L’Espanaye and her daughter’s murders by describing the physical evidence and witness testimony from the crime.…

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    Our first assigned reading was Poe’s detective story, The Murders in Rue Morgue. In the story, the unconventional detective Dupin and the unnamed narrator solve the murder with the assistance of the police, their own private investigating, and Dupin’s intellect. When we watched The Study in Pink, similarities could be drawn between Poe’s detective, Dupin, and Doyle’s detective, Sherlock Holmes. For example, Sherlock is an unconventional detective. He also does his own private investigating and…

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