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    that our universe keeps expanding. Hubble made a classification system that classifies the galaxies that have been used by other researchers for years. Edwin Hubble had a thing for science fiction when he was younger‚ he started to read it at a very young age‚ and one of his favorite science fiction books was Jules Verne’s 20‚000 Leagues under the Sea. When Hubble was just ten years old him and his family

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    how the officer is handled by his own department following the devastating event. In this case regarding Detective Casey‚ it is as simple as his department failing him‚ in their lack of communication and empathy. Question One The important concerns of this case are highlighted by Detective Casey’s department failing him when he did nothing wrong. The fact that after the shooting Detective Casey received minimal contact arguably when he needed it most in sense of validation is unacceptable. To

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    Anthony Verrastro Mr. O’Brien English Short Fiction L3 21 December 2012 Duchess of Death‚ Queen of Crime‚ Master of Murder The most sold fiction author is not William Shakespeare‚ not Edgar Allen Poe‚ nor is it J.K. Rowling. Agatha Christie is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Best Selling Fiction Author of All-Time” in 2007. As an author‚ she also holds a place in being called the “second best-selling author of all time” and “the second most translated book” only behind William

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    The detective agency has been around in the United States since 1850 thanks to Allan Pinkerton. Eleven years later‚ Zebulon Brockway created the first parole system. The world’s finger classification system was used in 1892‚ by Juan Vucetich while working for the Central Police Department in La Plata‚ Argentina. He first used it to identify a bloody fingerprint from a double homicide of children. Then in 1908‚ Lola G. Baldwin was hired as the first woman police officer. Also in 1908‚ Charles Bonaparte

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    Case 6 The Financial Detective‚ 2005 Health Products Company A has a much higher ratio of Cash & Short Term Investments‚ Receivables‚ and Inventories (24.2%‚ 12.8%‚ 7.0%) as compared to Company B (16.1%‚ 8.1%‚ 5.4%) which is lower in every asset category ratio besides Intangibles and Investments & Advances‚ 46.1% to 22.2% and 3.1% to .1%. This proves that Company A has cash on hand from the sale of side divisions and that they have a large production facility. Company B is a more diverse company

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    novels. Most of his works involved his anonymous detective The Continental Op‚ an employee of one of the big national detective agencies. Sam Spade became popular because of the movies‚ but didn’t feature in much of this author’s work. Hammett’s greatest skill was his combination of terse presentation‚ witty dialogue‚ and a plain style‚ which is why Hammett is so well known now. It should be pointed out that he followed the proper conventions of the detective story in presenting complex crimes that can

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    Moonstone is centered on an intricate plot surrounded by a multitude of first person narratives with complex eyewitnesses and truthiness backgrounds. The Moonstone becomes one of the defining novels for the English detective genre‚ but in fact the novel is not solved by the detectives‚ yet rather a scientist‚ Ezra Jennings. Defining characters‚ Seegrave and Sergeant Mr. Cuff are looked at in the novel to recover the incident‚ but because the novel takes many circumstantial views on truthiness we

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    Paul Auster’s City of Glass challenge the convention of detective genre and open up discussion of postmodern concerns. The focus of the illustration of my argument is based on ‘the authority of detective-writer’ Title Who is the detective? Name of Student: Ho Pui Chi‚ Gladys UID: 2009874088 Email: gho@spss.edu.hk Instructor: Dr. Winnie Yee Date of Submission: 17 October 2012 (Wed) Who is the detective? I am going to examine the ways in which Paul Auster’s

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    of Julia Stoner’s death and Dr. Roylott’s death as well ( the sister’s stepfather). We all know that a good mysterious book must also have a good detective. A good detective is observant‚ cautious‚ logical‚ aware of his\her surroundings ‚ and thinks in the most unexpected ways. Sherlock Holmes presents all the given qualities‚ making him a good detective. In the many ways i think that the story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” is a good mystery story‚ I don’t necessarily think that the clues are

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    industrialization polluted the city  ; industrialization polluted the city. Soon‚ The Great Depression hit and the city was overwhelmed with injustice‚ poverty‚ and crimes. Nevertheless‚ amidst such a gloomy and dark city‚ emerged a popular hard-boiled detective fiction‚ The Long Goodbye‚ that served readers as an outlet from dark realities. In the novel The Long Goodbye‚ Chandler uses the tropes of corruption and femme fatale to demonstrate the social impacts they have had on the dark and pessimistic postwar

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