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    Hercule Poirot's Murder

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    A murder detective seeks to enforce justice and bring closure to a mystery by striving to analyze every piece of information, essentially creating a battle between him and the not-yet-known killer. In Death on the Nile, by Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot faces the challenge of uncovering the murder of socialite Linnet Ridgeway despite the numerous troubles placed in his way and in the way of the truth. Despite the killers’ meticulous plan, Hercule Poirot eventually uncovers the mystery of…

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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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    Agatha Christie Influences

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    perhaps she was such a popular author because of the real life experiences she put into her writing. Agatha Christie’s writing of The Murder on the Orient Express was tremendously influenced by her family life as a child, her reaction to her failed marriage, and her international travels. Throughout Christie’s…

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    The Orient express by Agatha Christie is the best selling novel in the 1930’s . One of the series and adventures for Hercule Poirot the best detective, faced his hardest case yet. The story is about the great detective Hercule Poirot trying to solve the case on who killed the wanted criminal Rachette , this novel is taken place in the 1930’s in a snow storm which later on gets the train stuck . Later on as Hercule is trying to figure out who has murder the man he finds out something more deeper…

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    Agatha Christie Influence

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    most widely spread author in history with over two billion copies of her books sold and has been translated into forty-five different languages since 1920. Influenced by authors of her time and the newly founded mystery genre she is founder of the murder mystery (Bunsen). Agatha Christie was influenced by many different aspects of her life including family, work, and where she lived. In Christie’s early childhood she developed relationships with her imaginary friends. Having these imaginary…

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    The film version of Ten Little Niggers (1945, US title: And Then There Were None) by the French director René Clair, starring Walter Huston and Barry Fitzgerald, is one of the most faithful Christie adaptations. In addition to these mysteries, Christie wrote her autobiography (1977), and several plays, including THE MOUSETRAP, which run more than 30 years continuously in London, and had 8 862 performances at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The play was based on the short story 'Three Blind…

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    but after the murder of a man the train gets stuck onto a snowdrift. 3. Who are the main characters? Though there alot of characters involved…

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    The representation of black men and orientalism in the media This essay is going to be analysing the various media steriotypes produced in discourse by the West about black men and the orient and how this has a damaging effect on the two ethnic groups in society. The representation of black men in the media is constructed around a white dominiate supermacist view of them, this view has been orchastrated and maintained historically from slavery. For example the male gaze which is accepted and…

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    Agatha Christie is the most well-known author in the mystery genre. With 85 books written, she has ample expertise in the field. Her simple writing style combined with intricate plot lines is what sets her apart from the other mystery writers of the same era. Her personal life is also clearly reflected in her novels, including And Then There Were None, one of her most famous. Agatha Christie began writing because her sister dared her to “write a good detective story.” This challenge resulted…

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    Agatha Christie was famous for many books and plays that she wrote. Some of Christie’s more famous ones include A Ticket to the Boneyard, Maigret at the Crossroads, L.A. Confidential, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. One quality all of those books listed have in common is that they are all murder mysteries, the stories she was most famous for. Characters that everyone knew and loved in that generation were Miss M, and Poiret (How Christie Wrote). Other stories and plays she wrote were…

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