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    Starting out with a mere case about a blackmail situation‚ Marlowe‚ the detective‚ ends up solving a bigger case about the death of Rusty Regan and learns the deeper and scarier truth about human nature and desires. Chandler’s The Big Sleep portrays ambitious characters committing real crimes that are mentioned in the article “The Simple Art of Murder”. According to Chandler‚ good detective fiction comprises of real life situations. Chandler tried to fabricate a realistic situation so that the novel

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    Pogo – Lead Breakfast (‘Pulp Fiction’ Remix): That’s a Tasty Remix! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Ad1AuHriI) Nick Bertke‚ aka Pogo‚ is an Australian electronic music producer and remixer who specializes in remixing movies in both audio and video ways. Extracting specific sound effects from the movies to create beats‚ and chopping dialogues to create vocals for his songs‚ Pogo always succeeds at creating a new interesting piece out of old material. This particular remix‚ titled “Lead Breakfast”

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    The Maltese Falcon‚ is a hard-boiled detective novel; a subset of the mystery genre. Before the appearance of this sub-genre‚ mystery novels were mainly dominated by unrealistic cases and detectives like Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. As Malmgren states‚ “The murders in these stories are implausibly motivated‚ the plots completely artificial‚ and the characters pathetically two-dimensional‚ puppets and cardboard lovers‚ and paper mache villains and detectives of exquisite and impossible gentility

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    British and American Crime Novel Anastasia Puzyreva Question № 2. One of the distinguishing marks of all crime fiction is its emphasis on a sense of “atmosphere”‚ “decorum”‚ and “verisimilitude”. Using a specific example from one of the texts on our reading list agree or disagree with this statement. 1. Introduction «One of the distinguishing marks of all crime fiction is its emphasis on a sense of “atmosphere”‚ “decorum”‚ and “verisimilitude”. » The aim of this work is to identify

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    An example of a mystery is whether there is proof that God exists. C .An example of a mystery is how exactly people came to be. D .An example of a mystery is a situation where it is unclear who committed a crime. First detective storiesThe earliest known example of a detective story was The Three Apples‚ one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade ni the One Thousand and One Nights Arabian Nights). In this story‚ a fisherman discovers a heavy‚ locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to

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    the puzzle game

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    all detective stories. The puzzle game demonstrates how all detective stories follow a “puzzle tradition” that produce the reader with intrigue and intellectual stimulation. The puzzle games found in detective stories operate on multiple levels with varying complexities derived by an ingenious author. These games follow many variations and rules‚ but will never allow you to fully comprehend who the victim‚ the murder‚ and sometimes even who the sleuth is in the story. Two fascinating detective stories

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    how do these texts challenge the conventions and values for the traditional crime story? The purpose of each text and stylistic features Many crime fiction texts are produced to reflect and explore certain aspects of different societies‚ and developed conventions have allowed the development of the hard-boiled school. The Golden Age of crime fiction tends to focus on the plot‚ the setting and the intricate method of detection‚ while the hard boiled relies more on force and “gut-feelings” than ingenuity

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    was 20 year old Tonald Drump‚ by being strangled to death. Detective Pepperoni was sent to find who made the crime. Tonald was targeted and harassed by many people for using testimonial evidence on people in the court for things they didn’t do. Tonald did not help or be nice to any people besides his family‚ and he had a bad personality trait of being rude‚ selfish‚ and lying‚ so it makes sense why people would want to kill him. Detective Pepperoni found some evidence from Tomald‚ it wasn’t much

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    Twin Peaks stand-alone film version (1989) Twin Peaks (1989) is a successful drama mystery television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. This postmodern text exemplifies Lynch’s unique cinematic style and plays with traditional crime fiction tropes and character archetypes. Several themes found in Lynch’s previous work‚ Blue Velvet (1986)‚ are present in Twin Peaks (1989) and will be discussed throughout this film analysis. The Twin Peaks stand-alone film version was created and intended

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    For the exclusive use of S. YAN UV0072 Version 2.2 THE INVESTMENT DETECTIVE The essence of capital budgeting and resource allocation is a search for good investments in which to place the firm’s capital. The process can be simple when viewed in purely mechanical terms‚ but a number of subtle issues can obscure the best investment choices. The capital-budgeting analyst‚ therefore‚ is necessarily a detective who must winnow bad evidence from good. Much of the challenge is in knowing what quantitative

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