True Detective

After the murder of her father by hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture Tom Chaney. To catch the killer, she enlists the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie demands on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally, the rogue character allows her to come, but later leaves her. Against his wishes, she joins follows him into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger…

“Private Eye” or tough “Hard-boiled” private investigator detective fiction is the classification most dominated by American writers (Mansfield-Kelly 205). One of the founders and innovators of the private investigator is Dashiell Hammett. And is also “The most influential figure in the structuring of hard-boiled detective fiction,” (Mansfield-Kelly 229). He wrote the first tough-guy detective in “The Gutting of Couffignal”, named Continental OP and wrote The Maltese Falcon (Mansfield-Kelly 229)…

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…

stories are commonly known for the retrograde type of story telling and logical deduction used by the main character to solve the crime at hand. The entire genre is always centered around an individual trying to solve an issue, usually a crime, in a detective like manner. Mystery stories can suck the viewer in as they try to solve the mystery in the same way that the main character is approaching the problem at hand. Due to the ease of adapting the criteria for a mystery story into most…

movies and books. In particular Nancy Drew appeared in the 2007 movie Nancy Drew, and Sherlock Holmes appeared in the book The Hound of the Baskervilles.Although Nancy Drew has modern technology equipment to help her, Sherlock Holmes is a better detective because his powers of deduction, instinctual actions, and reliance on a sidekick help him be more efficient. Watson, Sherlock Holmes’ partner, is his long time friend throughout the Sherlock Holmes series. Having a strong bond with your…

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 in her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (“Agatha”). Ever since the publication of this novel, it was clear she was destined to write detective stories. Christie has unsurmountable success in the mystery genre with more works sold than any…

1886. Transcending literature onto stage and screen, Sherlock Holmes continues to fascinate audiences to this day. The Sherlock Holmes exhibition of The Museum of London titled “The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die”, London’s first on the detective since 1951, uses early film, photography and paintings plus original Victorian era artefacts to recreate the atmosphere of Sherlock’s London, and to re-imagine the places featured in Conan Doyle’s famous stories. The fictitious character…

as audiences will already have an idea of what to expect. This is done so that audiences will be able to quickly understand characters or ideas without the writers having explain. Nic Pizzolatto’s 2014 southern gothic crime drama, True Detective, is about two detectives, Rustin ‘Rust’ Cohle and Martin ‘Marty’ Hart, who are being questioned in 2012 about a bizarre murder case in 1995. These characters are constructed to challenge the pre-existing stereotypes of conventional heroes in society and…

Investigator, the continental Op, as he experiences and solves a robbery in the small island of Couffignal. Throughout the story the Op’s mannerisms show he is a sensitive person not only a hardened investigator. The Op is cynical because being a detective has forced him to see the bad in the world. This has caused him to mistrust peOple on first contact and also a defense mechanism, so he does not get tricked and can solve a case to the best of one’s ability. The Op also distances himself from…

Ratchett (or Casseti) and who committed the murder but later Hercules Poirot figures that more than one person committed the crime and came up with the solution that 12 of the 13 that were on the train had a hand in the murder, which turned out to be true in the ending of the book but Hercules decides to go with another solution to tell the police so the Armstrong family can be let go. 7. What were the deeper meanings or life lessons you got from the book ? I learned from the ending of the…