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Son Of Sam David Berkowitz
2,084 words... d trial... the defendant is a normal as anyone else. Maybe a little neurotic. "Ultimately, it didn't matter because David Berkowitz pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to 365 years in jail. In 1979, Robert Ressler, the FBI veteran, interviewed Berkowitz in Attica Prison three times. Berkowitz had been allowed to keep a scrapbook he had compiled of all the newspaper stories about the murders. He used these scrapbooks to keep his fantasies alive. Ressler made it clear that he didn't buy the demon...
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Time Of Death Sherlock Holmes
2,399 words... he greatest crime investigator in history relied on the only true witnessevidenceto solve a crime. Although fictitious, Sherlock Holmes techniques of acute observation and logical application of detail underlay the basis of solving any crime. Those skills, added to todays growing technology allow police efforts to successfully conduct an investigation. Since evidence is stable and will not change its story once in front of the jury, or forget what it saw, those who collect, analyze and inter...
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Cleveland Ohio Twenty Minutes
1,539 wordsThe players, including myself, are veiled behind the platform. My heart begins pounding, as you would wake from a branch tapping into your window on a stormy night. Waiting for all the right cues, I deeply anticipate the rising of the red drapes so I can begin my quest. Yet I still feel overwhelmed by the charge of intensity running through me, easily seen by the bullets of sweat that line my forehead, starting their trickle to my already dampened cheeks. The time seemed to take on a fast pace. ...
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Time And Space Jules Verne
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My Five Year Plan After Graduation
1,252 wordsFive years after graduation I plan to obtain a master's degree in law enforcement. Right now I'am really not sure what I really want to truly do for the rest of my life. The only thing I like doing is finding clues and figuring out the criminal in mystery books. I know that sense I like doing that, it leads me to desiring a position as a detective or something dealing with the FBI. Im thinking that its most likely that I will go to a university. If I do, I will go to the University of Phoenix. I...
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Luv Jane Xox Luv Jane Xox Dear Hailey
1,057 words... to Janes room? H: The mess it was in, shes normally neat and tidy. DF: Was the window open last night? H: Yes, but only slightly. DF: Did you notice any thing missing? H: Some of my paracetamol was missing; I thought Jane had borrowed it for a headache. Detective Flint: Do you have any alcohol in your house? H: Yes, why? Detective Flint and I exchanged glances. DF: Can you go home and check to see if any is missing, ring us later that will be all thanks. Jane and I became best friends but Ha...
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Edgar Allen Poe Murders In The Rue
1,271 wordsIn the mystery stories The Murder at the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe and Kiss the Girls by James Patterson, there are differences in the storyline and style of presentation. Dealing with the plots and the way in which that the crimes are committed, are very contrasted in each book. When looking at the subject matter, the stories also differ in the manner that they are laid out, dealing with flashbacks and the order of events. In Edgar Allen Poe's short story, 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', a...
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Black And White Maltese Falcon
632 wordsIn my opinion, The Maltese Falcon is the best example of the detective story of the early years of XX century, which was followed by the creation of movie. Written in 1930, The Maltese Falcon creates its own rules and style for detective fiction. It was a groundbreaking book, offering up a style of writing that most had not seen before. Hammett wrote as if everyone wanted to talk: smooth, assured, and witty. He wrote with a graceful masculinity that made being bad beautiful. He created a world w...
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Drug Addicted Drug Dealer
1,539 wordsCrime Movies Review It is no secret that detective and criminal movies are mostly popular among the audience. For a very long time the critics have been discussing the reasons of such popularity. Some people say that contemporary explicit criminal movies corrupt the audience and serve as the driving force for criminal action. But is it really true? Drew Todd wrote that crime movies implicitly make two arguments at once: they criticize some aspect of society and the offer some resolution by showi...
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De Gaulle Charles De
2,021 wordsFrederick Forsythe, master storyteller and suspense-novelist, retired in 1997, and that was a damn shame. Since 1971, Forsythe has fabricated some of the best intrigue and espionage novels in the world, and many of his books have become films, among them The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, and The Fourth Protocol. Perhaps best-known of his novels is his first, The Day of the Jackal, a work that was so overwhelming in its craft and detail that he was immediately compared to John Le Carre, the preem...
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Edgar Allan Poe Detective Stories
713 wordsEdgar Allan Poe had one of the greatest impacts on American Romantic and Gothic literature. All the grief that he put up with he put into his short stories and poetry. He could translate anything bad that came into his life in to words this is one of the ways he would cope with things and he was great at it. Edgar Allan Poe? s mother died when he was two years old after his father left the family about a year prior. ? His mother died at the tender age of twenty-four dealt two-year-old Edgar a cr...
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Edgar Allan Poe Life In Death
2,715 wordsAlthough not originally well received, Edgar Allan Poe, became one of the most influential literary writers in American history. As a child, he wrote numerous poems, many which were later published. As a young adult he focused much of his attention on short fiction. He was credited with creating the detective story and known for his psychological and often violent thrillers. He is also known for his macabre themes and for having a fascination with death. Literary students should recognize these ...
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Political And Social Social And Political
2,371 wordsInteraction Between Political And Social Life In Interaction Between Political And Social Life In Ancient Imperial Rome The interaction between political and social life in Ancient Rome has been accurately portrayed in the well researched novel, The Course of Honour, by Lindsey Davies. However as this is a fictional novel told as an interesting story instead of fact, the information given must be corroborated with several primary sources to correct any inherent biases. Lindsey Davies is an autho...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Faulkner
5,121 wordsWesley Cook was born in 1954. While he was protesting at a George Wallace for president rally in 1968, several white men attacked him. He claims that two men grabbed him. One kicked his face and skull, while the other kicked him in the groin. As the beating progressed, ? he looked up and saw the two-toned gold-trimmed pant leg of a Philadelphia police officer. ? He yelled for the police, who saw him on the ground being beaten to a pulp. ? A police officer marched over briskly, and kicked him in ...
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Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
1,091 wordsLiterature and Warfare of Great Britain Great Britain was the home of many famous people during the early part of the twentieth century. Many of these famous people were associated with literature. Great Britain was also the setting of a few tragedies during that time period. One of these tragic occurrences was World War I. Sir Winston Churchill, World War I, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle helped shape the British landscape, both figuratively and literally, during the early years of the twentieth ce...
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Humphrey Bogart Maltese Falcon
1,137 wordsThe mysterious legend of the Maltese Falcon unfolds as the opening scene reveals the origin of the jewel-encrusted black statue. Its history dates back ages, and it is said to have disappeared after a struggle at sea, with its whereabouts unknown. The black and white screen slowly provides a transition into the office, and intricate life of private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart). As the dialogue starts fast and furiously, a story involving murder, greed and betrayal unfolds on screen. This movi...
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Edgar Allan Poe Poe
562 wordsThe Blessing Way Edgar Allan Poe has influenced many mystery writers of the modern times. In The Blessing Way, Tony Hillerman uses the usual detective mystery features traceable to Poe. These include an observant detective, a baffled friend, and the delayed explanation and conclusion. In this mystery, the observant detective and the baffled friend are especially used. Another Poe element, the dumb police, did not really show up in this story. I could not really find any instances of this element...
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Kind Of Emotional Martin Sloane Jolene
756 wordsA fairytale detective story Martin Sloane Michael Redhill Heinemann? 9. 99, pp 272 This first novel comes with an endorsement from Michael Ondaatje, and it is no surprise that the author of The English Patient found much in it to admire. Michael Redhill shares with his Canadian compatriot a gift for studied lyricism, a complex kind of emotional intelligence and, most of all, a poets understanding of the workings of time. Redhill's narrative glides gently in and out of present and past and builds...
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Year Old Boy Wasn T
709 wordsAuthor: Still Missing Still Missing Author: Beth Gutcheon The Setting of the novel takes place in Boston, Back Bay on Sixty-three Fremont Street The characters are Susan Selky, Alexander s mother and a psychiatrist, Alexander Graham Selky Jr, a 6 year old boy, the son of Susan Selky, Graham Selky, the father of Alex, and the ex-husband of Susan, Jocelyn, Susan s best friend who s little daughter Justine go to school with Alex, Detective Al Menetti, the detective who help investigates the missing...
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Hard Boiled Detective Fiction
366 wordsYou people suck. English teachers have enough work to do without dealing with this crap. hard-boiled fiction a tough, unsentimental style of American crime writing that brought a new tone of earthy realism or naturalism to the field of detective fiction. Hard-boiled fiction used graphic sex and violence, vivid but often sordid urban backgrounds, and fast-paced, slangy dialogue. Credit for the invention of the genre belongs to Dashiell Hammett (1894 1961), a former Pinkerton detective and contrib...
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