Whodunit

were face-to-face. From a distance, I didn’t like him. Up close, I liked him even less. A fuzzy mullet, full mustache, hardly any neck. His attire—cowboy boots and a large belt buckle like a rodeo bronc rider—was typical for the humdrum dwellers of Whodunit Hill, a suburb in Clandestine County. Seth struggled, kicking and pummeling the air. “This is private property,” the man said, stepping over a No Trespassing sign someone had pried from its post. “Correct. And you’re impeding progress, sir,”…

Crime fiction television shows from different countries portray the contrasting values and cultural ideologies societies of differing nations possess. A nation’s context greatly influences the crime fiction programs that it creates; current events occurring within a country and the contemporary issues that they deal with all shape the shows they produce. The American drama “Breaking Bad”, England’s “Sherlock Holmes” as well as the Australian show “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries”, all demonstrate…

Tarantino's most auteur oozing movie made to date. Though it might just be his most bland piece of work yet. Likewise, at it's most basic premise The Hateful Eight is almost identically structured to Reservoir Dogs. Which, also was an non-linear whodunit thriller that is more of a western genre this time around instead of being a crime thriller. However the one distinguishable difference is that none of the characters have any redeemable qualities. The performances from the Star studded cast…

reader of murder mysteries keeps uppermost in mind at all times the goal of arriving through logic and observation at the final, ultimate solution to the mystery offered in the book, novel, tale, or short story. It is a game with life and death. Whodunits hopefully help the reader to hide from the hideous, frightening, mortifying horrors of actual life and death in today’s real, modern world where reality reigns…

Chapter One Thornewood Hall There are two types of people in Whodunit Hill: the sincere and the shady. So when Miss Sims, a checker at the Root & Shoot greengrocer thought she saw a ghost in front of Thornewood Hall I didn’t know what to believe. But I figured her claim had to be considered. Anyway, that was what got me into this pickle in the first place. By pickle, I mean the fact that I’m staring at the ghoul as it flashes blue in a tangled sea of tattered sheers. The drapes dropped to the…

The movie industry in India is definitely undergoing changes to cater to modern mindsets of younger generation who are more liberalized. In the past, movies tend to be portrayed more stereotypes such as gender, storytelling and culture. However, with revolutions in the information and communications technology, Indian movies are becoming more diasporic, taking into account the audiences outside India. Hence, this idea intrigued us into the issue of stereotypes and if any changes in the…

Colin Dexter Raised with high scholarly expectations, Norman Colin Dexter is a revolutionary in the writing genre of crime and mystery. Born September 29, 1930 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, Colin Dexter had numerous academic challenges ahead of him. Both of his parents dropped out of school at twelve years old, consequentially wanting him to put his time and effort solely into his studies, which excused him of household chores. As he got older, Colin Dexter took an interest to crossword…

Chapter One Willaston Place Whodunit, midnight in late July. The night sky weighed over Willaston’s spiky rooftop, and the ghost was watching. Standing there silently winding around the drapes, a shadow floating in shadows peering down at the ragged lawn. “Creepy on your three o’clock,” I whispered. My partner, Seth Holloway—a tall, slim sleuth wearing a brown trench coat and a deerstalker cap—continued fiddling with his flashlight. He liked to tinker. Seriously, a high school marching band…

Sophia Du Mrs. Smith English 11AP Mrs. Smith The Game’s Afoot Review The Game’s Afoot is a comedic whodunit set in the holiday season of 1936. Theater star William Gillette (played by Edzel Ochoa) survives being shot following a performance as Sherlock Holmes, and, as he is recovering, invites his fellow cast members to spend Christmas with him and his mother (Antara Baruah). The guests – William’s best friend Felix (Rohan Arora), Felix’s wife Madge (Devin Hill), and the freshly married Simon…

Prologue Moments Before Most detectives follow a trail of clues to solve a case, but sometimes the clues just don’t make sense. Like when a ghost runs through the thickets in sneakers, or when strange men start dashing out from behind trees to inspect a house being torn down. And what does a magical stone lying next to a skeleton dressed in night clothes have to do with a dragon? Anyway, it turned out the leads weren’t red herrings at all. There was a ghoul, a missing stone, a kidnapped kid, an…