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    The first hard-boiled mystery author was Raymond Chandler himself. Stimulating mysteries generated by Raymond Chandler included his hard-boiled detective, Philip Marlowe. A narrative called “Killer in the Rain” was Chandler’s fourth published story, yet it intensified Marlowe’s character despite the fact it was early in the Marlowe series. Additionally, the majority of Chandler’s pieces were acknowledged…

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    Holmes was written to get rid of guilty conscience the accident with the acid and the body, which we are getting told about in ‘The acid test’. The text “The engineer’s Thumb” is about Sherlock Holmes, who is the very intelligent and incredible detective, who can find the solution to almost any case. The way Sherlock Holmes is described is like a hero and an unnatural person. Arthur Conan Doyle described Sherlock Holmes the way, that he wanted to be as a young medical student at the Old College.…

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    Sherlock Holmes Definition

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    “The name is Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221B Baker Street.” (Moffat) This is where we start our story, with a name and an address. If you ask random people “Who is Sherlock Holmes?” most will tell you that he is the greatest detective to ever live. While this statement is taken for fact all around the world, unfortunately the great Mister Holmes has always been fiction. It is like calling the lion who lives in savannas the king of the jungle. The actuality in these labels maybe lacking,…

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    wrote short stories,and poetry.He won a literary prize for “The gold Bug”,in 1843.”The gold Bug was a story of hunting treasure,and secret codes.Editor of the evocative poems and short stories that interested readers around the world.Wrote modern detective stories,along with horror. He mother died when he was three,and his father left. He got separated from his sister Rosalie and his brother William. He went a university in Virginia,he…

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    Reverse phone detective system If you have ever received a call from an unknown number and had the person hung up on you, you know how infuriating it can be. Not only was that rude, but who was it that called you? Could it possibly have been that special person you have been eyeing for a while? Or was it some strange person with a dark and sick agenda? What if a loved one had needed help and was using someone else’s phone to contact you? Instead of staring at your phone and silently freaking…

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    About Private Detective Chelmsford in Essex "Private Detective Chelmsford is an autonomous private analyst organization situated in Essex in the UK." "Private Detective Chelmsford covers most sorts’ examinations in both the Private and Corporate segment." "In the private segment Private Detective Chelmsford, following missing people, criminal safeguard and business succeeding while in the corporate division record verifications plus reviewing, follow indebted individuals, observation,…

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    and persistent raindrops on the windshield made the drive to Duquesne University especially glum that Tuesday morning. I felt a particular sense of being shadowed as I walked from my parked car down to Lieberman Hall for our class discussion of detective fiction. When I reached the building, I realized that I had forgotten my key to enter. Thankfully, a man who looked to be my professor rounded the corner and unlocked the door for me. As I passed through the doorway, I turned around to thank the…

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    “Christie sold more than two billion books, translated into 103 languages. Only the Bible and Shakespeare’s work are said to have sold more” (de Bruxelles). Agatha Christie published 78 mystery novels, 19 plays, six romance novels (under the pseudo name Mary Westmacott), two books of poetry, one children’s book, and two autobiographies, in addition to over 100 short stories. She averaged two books per year for most of her life (Agatha’s Life Hercule Poirot Poirot.us). Her mystery novels are…

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    Irvin Welsh: Filth The second research I gathered for building the writing style of my story came in the form of 2 novels by Scottish writer Irvin Welsh. Both of these novels came with far more parallels towards how I was to develop the structure of my own story than Of Mice and Men. One such parallel is the use of first person narrative and present tense. This is a more unusual combination in literature and so I was very pleased to come across two famous and well-acclaimed examples in order to…

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    coming from inside. The next morning, we find out that a mother and daughter were murdered by an unknown killer, and the mother has her neck cut from her body outside the house window and the daughter was strangled and shoved into a fireplace. Two detectives, the unnamed narrator and Dupin both investigate the house and interrogate many witnesses to get clues about the killer, However useless, Dupin figures out that it was not a human who killed them but an animal. The animal belonged to a…

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