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    Murder on the Orient Express Vs. And Then There Were None I have never know what a true mystery is until I read a book by Agatha Christie. She really knows how to twist my mind until I don’t know which way is up and which is down. Mystery contains suspense with drama. No mystery is the same as the other. I am a man who doesn’t like the extra fluff at the beginning of the story it just gets confusing. In both of these books both throw the reader into the mystery the very first night. Both of…

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    In both Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile and Sydney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express the authors engage the audience by adding suspense into the mystery. While both mysteries add suspicion one constructs a mystery made up of deaths and mystery elements while the other uses movie angels, music, and the character as suspense. Both Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile and Sydney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express equally use suspense in the pieces. Both pieces of entertainment use clues to…

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    The Perfect Detective What does it take to solve a crime? Knowledge? Instinct? These are the questions that flow throughout the minds of average people. In Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie, Christie is able to show the reader the thinking behind solving a case. With Christie's writing, it brings the reader to experience the workings of detective. These workings ultimately make up one of the most famous main characters. Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, better known as Agatha…

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    Poirot Research Paper

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    have troubles, which hurt others around them in a myriad of ways. Of course, Poirot would put himself on an island if he thought the many murders that surrounded him was his fault for the number one thing Poirot hates is murder. Poirot is on the Orient Express traveling through the snowy night from Istanbul towards it's long way across Europe, where a death occurs, and of course everyone turns to him for help with his gray cells.…

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    A murdered husband, a wife behind bars and a daughter determined to prove her mother’s innocence with the help of Europe’s most infamous detective. A cunning and manipulative man, Hercule Poirot’s psychologically centered investigative skills make him the moral and intellectual superhero of this twisted tale. In her novel Five Little Pigs, Agatha Christie tells the story of heartbreak, betrayal and revenge that wraps up in an unforeseeable revelation. Dame of the British Empire and wildly…

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    Murder Is Easy To Play Murder's interface combines visual novel and traditional point-and-click mechanics. You have no direct control over Lt. Minori's movement as she will only move in order to interact with a designated hotspot. In addition to interacting with the environment, you may have Lt. Minori engage NPCs in conversation by clicking them. The dialogue--and Lt. Minori's internal monolog--are fully voiced and accompanied by text. To instantly display it: simply click the mouse as it…

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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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    Colonial Waves In Morocco

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    Travel narratives about Morocco constitute an inextricable part of the discursive practices that created and maintained an ontological and epistemological construction of Morocco that made it fit in the homogenous and monolithic Orient. Therefore, one way of proving such a claim is by questioning the image of Morocco and the way the country has been identified from a Western perspective based on a body of produced knowledge, particularly travel narratives, and thus the subject of this essay.…

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    two-thirds of the nineteenth century could a close partnership have developed between Orientalists and a protracted, sustained national interest in the Orient. There was nothing in Germany to correspond to the Anglo-French presence in India, the Levant, North Africa. Moreover, the German Orient was almost exclusively a scholarly, or at least a classical, Orient: it was made the subject of lyrics, fantasies, and even novels, but it was never actual, the way Egypt and Syria were actual for…

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