Whodunit Essays

Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation is the intense story of Erika Krouse’s experience as working as a private investigator, despite being unqualified and unlicensed. After her many hardships and thoughts of quitting, an unignorable sexual assault assignment came along that completely changed her views on her job. She worked tirelessly to get justice for the victim no matter what it takes, as she knows personally what it is like to go through such an occurrence. The excerpt covers

Literary analysis of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time I think creative people are very different from others. They seem to live on a different planet, in a whole other universe. In his 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, in which he won the Whitbread book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the year, and the Commonwealth Writer`s Prize For Best First Book, the acclaimed British novelist Mark Haddon give us insights into the world told through the perspective

One becomes independent when they are able to adjust anywhere with little to no guidance or reassurance needed. Being independent is an exceeding character trait, which transforms one’s initiation, ultimately leading them to achieve their true ambition. The constant theme of maturation and developing independence appears in the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, written by the English novelist, Mark Haddon, which follows the life of a fifteen year old boy, Christopher John

Imagine being in a house on an isolated island with nine strangers; slowly, one by one, the strangers around you begin to die, are you next? In the novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, the plot revolves around a group of strangers all accused of murder who will soon meet their death. The story is filled with suspense, a progressive mission to discover who the murderer is, and an interactive plot for readers. Christie’s style of writing is such that it breaks all the conventional rules

The motive for Murder in Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is an interesting story that revolves around the confession of a man, Montresor, to an unknown person. Montresor confesses how he murdered Fortunato. Like most of his works, Poe has used the first person narrative to address the readers directly. He has also addressed the theme of death. This notable subject is evident in most of his works such as “The Tale-A-Tell” and “The Black Cat.” While Montresor

Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900), directed by Arthur Marvin, is considered to be the first screen adaptation of Sherlock Holmes`s character. It is a silent film which lasts only 30 seconds. Besides, it is the first officially recorded movie in the detective genre. The fact that no one else but Sherlock Holmes was the first book character who started the development of detective films is definitely very significant and symbolic: "…it is an early trick film clearly made for viewing on a mutoscope or

“Be the change you wish to see in the world” Ghandi recited in hopes of inspiring youth. Mickey Bolitar, the main character in Shelter by Harlan Coben, becomes strongly affected by his words. Mickey takes action when no one else will, and in the end, saves the helpless. Coben’s 2011 suspense novel, Shelter, features a girl gone missing. Ashley's disappearance boggles the minds of many. Until, the crime pulls together a mismatched group of friends. United as one, the three work together through the

Make a short summary of the novel that will remind the others of the story The curious incident of the dog in the night-time is a book about a boy named Christopher. One night he finds his neighbour's dog dead, with a pitchfork in it. In my opinion this is where I instantly got interested in the book. But yea Christopher gets curious about it and gets caught standing next to the dead dog with the pitchfork inside it therefor becoming a suspected dog killer. He decides to write a book In which

Jasmine Ifeakanwa  Mrs. Kleman  Honors English 9 Bell 2  20 November 2016  Singing My Sister Down v.s And of Clay Are We Created  "Singing My Sister Down" is a short story about a family letting go of a family member 'Ikky' after she killed her husband. "And of Clay Are We Created" is a short story about a reporter 'Rolf' trying to save a helpless girl, when in reality he is trying to save himself from his childhood. "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan and "And of Clay Are We Created" by Isabel

What should a good detective story contain? In “The Simple Art of Murder”, by Raymond Chandler, he writes out the guidelines that are needed to able to call a detective story good. Chandler also wrote a book called The Big Sleep that is a detective story about two out of control sisters, a hardboiled detective, murders, and never ending of twist and turns. Chandler does follow his guidelines when he wrote The Big Sleep by being realistic, element uplift, fools the reader, and honest to the reader

The detective novel gained popularity during the 1930s due to its conventional plot and heroic characters that most people enjoyed as an escape from the pains of everyday life. As Americans were living in poverty, they wanted to see a well-off version of themselves, “a working-man hero especially suited to the industrial city.” Detective stories provided that hero. The detective, being pitched “against intractable sources of corruption...tended to convey a populist anger at the abuses of the wealthy

The play was written in 1945 by JB Priestley, just after the end of WW2 but it is set in 1912. In the Edwardian period people were very well dressed from the middle class upwards and very few people were wealthy. It was hard to move up the social ladder if you lived in that time and the rich tended to treat the poor in a very bad way. Using this he is able to criticise the attitudes and mannerisms of the middle-class people at that time towards the less fortunate. He can also expose the conditions

Introduction: Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing. Wasn’t a dainty dish to set before the king? The king was in his counting house, counting his money, The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey, The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes, When there came a little dickey bird and nipped off her nose. (Christie 113) Nursery rhyme is the essence of Dame Agatha Christie’s

the 1920s and 1930s; however, classic novels had been written since 1911 and still, are being written. Most of the Golden Age writers are British, however, in America the genre of ‘Hard-Boiled’ fiction is dominant. In this age, the major theme is ‘whodunit’ or the ‘clue puzzles’ in which the reader solves the mystery of a codified game. Golden Age of Detective Fiction was preceded by an age, which began with Sir Arthur Canon Doyle’s set of short mystery stories

‘Em Play God” uses point of view to create suspense in his. In “Let ‘Em Play God” the author writes “The audience knows everything from the start, the players know nothing. There is not a single detail to puzzle the audience. It is certainly not a whodunit for the simple reason that everyone out front knows who did it. No one on the screen knows except the two murderers. The fact that the audience watches actors go blithely through an atmosphere that is

CHAPTER ONE Gray Meadow Manor There are two types of people in Whodunit Hill: the sincere and the shady. So when Miss Sally Sims, a checker at the Root & Shoot greengrocer, told me she’d seen a ghost waltzing on the grass in front of Gray Meadow Manor, I didn’t know what to believe. But I figured her claim had to be considered. In part because my dad always says, “There’s a kernel of truth in even shady assertions,” and being a private eye I needed to find out if he was right. Anyway, that was

Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon is a frame story set in the Heian period of Japan. Based on a short narrative by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Rashomon recounts the incident of a murder of a man and the rape of his wife. To investigate this tragedy, the film revolves around the eye-witness recollection of this occurrence through of several onlookers such as a woodcutter, a bandit, a samurai, and the samurai’s wife. To exemplify one of the witnesses, the first person to be summoned to testify is the woodcutter

In his essay “The Typology of Detective Fiction”, Todorov argues that a whodunit essentially contains two stories: “the first – the story of the crime - tells ‘what really happened’, whereas the

stories of detection and mystery, Christie created a body of work which made her the most popular writer of the twentieth century.” (Bargainnier 1) In June 1926 Agatha Christie published The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which has been voted the best whodunit novel ever written, by a referendum of 600 fellow writers.“The survey, of members of the Crime Writers’ Association of professional novelists, concluded that Christie’s 1926 mystery The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was the finest example of the genre

These were myths, stories, that whoever conjured them up had to be under the authority of Satan. At any rate, the Isis-Osiris mystery begins with murder, dismemberment, and scattered body parts which remind me more of a murder she wrote mystery or a whodunit thriller. I wonder who came up with this myth. From what I have read, it is unknown. Well, Osiris’s lover, Isis is torn, and from a heart filled with bitter sorrow and anger from her lover’s demise, she goes on a mission to find her lover’s body