True Detective

A classic detective story from the 1920s, The Maltese Falcon continues to prevail today as a famous and true mystery novel. The characters within the book seem authentic, each with quirks and flaws nicking their corners, producing realistic people for the readers to enjoy. Written by Dashiell Hammett, this story contains an element of credibility to the way the detectives act, as the author himself worked as a detective during the 1910s. Nevertheless, given the era in which it was written,…

Christie in the early twentieth century, women play a very vital role in helping to uncover the hidden truths throughout the novel (Thinkers View). Agatha Christie, a woman author who could be described as being a feminist, primarily wrote novels about detective fiction, mysteries, and secrets. Christies works symbolized the battle women during this time period were faced with while fighting for enhancement and equality of their rights. The main character of the novel Miss Marple was an elderly…

Detective Traits First off, my detective will be a boy around the age in the teen years. He will be in high school and he will have a friend that helps him solve the crime and it will be his closest friend. The main protagonist name is Nicolas, his sidekick's name is Henry. Nicolas will have tan skin, will have straight plus waivy hair,he will be tall, skinny, and a foot size of 10 for shoes. His partner on the other hand is mediocre tall, has orange wavy hair, skinny, freckles, and is a foot…

Grit Is Alive Who has true grit, would you make it out alive? True Grit is a Western novel based in the 1800’s, and the author is Charles Portis. There are three lead roles, including Mattie Ross is a 14 year old girl who is set out to avenge her father’s death. The killer, Tom Chaney a some what witty, sly, con-man and a killer. Rooster Cogburn a civil war hero, a man who displays affection that very few people in the his time would. Ill explain my idea ion true grit in the following. Mattie…

Hamlet is not sure of the Ghost's account, not sure that the phantom is indeed the spirit of his father, or that of a demon. In order to prove that Claudius is a murderer, Hamlet plans to reveal the King's guilt through means of a play: I'll have grounds More relative than this-- the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. (2.2.603-605) Hamlet urges Horatio to observe the King's reaction to the play so he can be sure of his guilt and positive that…

Standing the Test of Time 1969 and 2010, forty-one years in difference since the first “True Grit” was released to the public, both movies followed the same story line. The 1969 “True Grit” was by far an extraordinary production compare to the 2010 version, the director’s ability to picture the father-daughter relationship in the introductory scene, and the fact that he chose a well know actor such as John Wayne, which gives the character the classic cowboy American hero feeling, as well as Kim…

ambiguity and character behavior, allows Christie to develop the novel's three crucial themes: distortion of justice, effect of guilt, and use of concealment. The majority of murder mystery novels examine the act of a murderer who, because of the main detective, is brought to justice for their crimes. In And Then There…

Adapted many times and having countless tumblrs dedicated to the tale, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem is the world's most treasured classic adventure. It comes as no surprise that BBC took the English tale and made it one of their own, but did their adaption, Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall, live up to the expectation? It comes with a change of century and characters that have been moulded into, what some would falsely criticise, entirely new beings. BBC's adaption is surprisingly new… and so…

James Patterson: One Step at a time to a Suspenseful Success James Patterson remains best recognized for his thriller series of Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, along with the Women’s Murder Club. These series are just a few to mention of the author’s colossal accomplishments in publications. Being duly noted that Patterson’s books account for one out of every seventeen hardcover novels purchased in the United States (Berkowitz). More so, Patterson’s achievement has been accredited to his…

In Poe’s detective stories “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter,” Dupin serves as a model of rational deduction. Dupin seems to have almost supernatural deductive ability in solving mysteries. Since Dupin’s use of reason to solve mysteries is central to these stories, determining Poe’s views on the nature of reasoning is critical to an understanding of their meaning. Hurh (2012) argues that the description of Dupin’s dual nature of “the creative and the resolvent” (Poe,…