Free Essays on Murder Mystery Story

  1. Murder by Natural Causes

    Murder By Natural Causes is a sort of play that gives off the elements that attracts mystery lovers. It has comedy moments, thrills, and suspense. Arthur Sinclair is a world-famous mentalist, which in layman’s terms, means he can read minds. He is extremely successful. But, he has a very weak heart....

  2. Murder on the Orient Express Book Review

    About the Author Agatha Christie (1890-1976), English novelist, was a prolific writer of mystery stories. She was born in Torquay. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) began her career. Her mysteries are noted for clever and surprising twists of plot and her books have sold over a billion copies in...

  3. Mystery

     Mystery! From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Mystery! Genre Anthology, mystery Presented by Gene Shalit, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg Country of origin United States, United Kingdom Original language(s) English Production company(s) WGBH, BBC, ITV ...

  4. Murder by Razor

    Murder By Razor It was time to move on. I needed to be able to stretch my legs. A two bedroom flat was simply just not enough. A family of four and another child on the way, we needed the escape. No -where on Earth could we fit another bed under this roof, let alone another vehicle in the driveway...

  5. Compare and Contrast: Speckled Band & Lamb to the Slaughter

    one of the short Sherlock Holmes stories and "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl are two short stories which belong to the genre Murder/Mystery. There are many similarities between Arthur Conan Doyle's and Roald Dahl's works. For example both of them handle with a murder submitted by a relative of the...

  6. Bodyguard

    The story starts off with the murder of Jacques Saunière (the Grand Master Of Priory of Sion, although virtually no one knows that at the time) by Silas (acting on behalf of someone known only as The Teacher) to extract the location of the "keystone", an item that leads to the Holy Grail. The police...

  7. Gosick

    Bookseller’s Assignment The book I’m going to introduce to you is called “Gosick” by Kazuki Sakuraba. It is a mystery fiction. The story happened in 1924 and it takes place in Sauville, a small European country. Kazuya Kujo, the main character, was the youngest son of a soldier. He has been studying...

  8. Sherlock Holmes Book Review

    books of Sherlock Holmes are about mystery, but this case is an unusual one. Even though it is about murder, it is a sort of twisted kind of murder, to the extent that it was not even about murder, but it appeared to be. The Man with the Twisted Lip The story begins when Watson, Sherlock Holmes's...

  9. How Mystery-Religions Helped to Clear the Pathway for the Christianization of the Greco-Roman?

    In this paper it will be shown that the mystery-religions helped to clear the pathway for the Christianization of the Greco-Roman world by men such as Paul the Apostle. Also, the Emperor Constantine during whose reign the mystery-religions declined and Christianity became the major religion of Europe...

  10. Bigfoot

    NAME: xxxxx CLASS: Brighton 1 TITLE OF THE STORY: AUTHOR OF THE BOOK: Gina D. B. Clemen INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gina D. B. Clemen was born in San Francisco, California. She grew up in North Beach, San Francisco`s unique multiethnic neighbourhood when the Beat Generation was changing America`s...

  11. Haiku

    An author’s first ingredient in making a good play or short story is their characters. Characters are essential to the ending result in a successful story. All different authors choose to characterize their characters using many different techniques. Sophocles and Susan Glaspell are two great examples...

  12. Medieval Literature Notes

    tales the knight honors womanhood and is gentlemanly • the most famous are the tales of King Arthur • throughout history, artists return to these stories, Even today, period romance is burgeoning Religion and the Church • The medieval period is often known as the “Age of Faith” • Church played...

  13. Oedipus Rex and Trifles

    "Oedipus Rex" and "Trifles" "Oedipus Rex" and "Trifles" was different mysteries plays. They both have in common a mystery, but they are both very different plays. The first play "Oedipus Rex" was more of a unknown murder who then leads to the hurtful truth. Where on the other hand "Trifles" was...

  14. And Then There Were None

    in a mansion with ten other strangers? Well in Agatha Christie’s chilling murder mystery novel, And Then There Were None, this is exactly what happens. In this classic work, Christie creates a masterpiece of mystery and murder. After ten strangers gather together on an isolated island off the coast of...

  15. Agatha Cristie: Queen of Crime

    Oxfordshire, England | |Occupation |Novelist | |Genres |Murder mystery, Thriller, Crime fiction | |Literary movement |Golden Age of Detective Fiction | Agatha Mary Clarissa...

  16. jot fleot

    “Trifles”"Oedipus Rex" and "Trifles" was different mystery plays. They both have in common a mystery, but they are both very different plays. The first play “Oedipus Rex” was more of an unknown murder who then leads to the hurtful truth. In Susan Glaspell’s story, Mrs. Wright killed his husband. Because she...

  17. Compare and Contrast Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess

    contrast two poems that deal with the issue of love” This essay will compare and contrast ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ which is about a psychotic Lover who murders his female Lover with ‘My Last Duchess’ which is about a Duke who invites his fiancées intermediary and talks about his previous wife, Both poems deal...

  18. Finding Nouf Essay

    finds its way onto the shelves, there may yet be hope for the literary world. Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris is a greatly detailed mystery set in contemporary Saudi Arabia. The story centres on the mysterious disappearance of a young Saudi girl by the name of Nouf Ash Shrawi, the unfortunate discovery of her...

  19. Pleasentville

    Miranda's Monster Mystery of the Woodenlegs Pete and the Doodlebug Revenge of the Wildcat 2) This novel is a mystery novel. Here are some examples of some other books with the same genre as the Silent Pool by Griselda Gifford: - Mystery of the Woodenlegs - Griselda...

  20. dahlia

    pleasant. B. (Thesis statement) written in complete sentences According to the article, Solving the 4k mysteries of the Black Dahlia. Elizabeth Short’ death is one of the notorious murder case ever to happen in Los Angeles C. (Preview of Main Points) written in complete sentences I will be discussing...

  21. A Jury of Her Peers

    In-Class Analysis Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers," first published in 1917, is a short story adaptation of her one-act play Trifles. Since their first publication, both the story and the play have appeared in many anthologies of women writers and playwrights. Although Trifles was written...

  22. Blair Witch Project

    teenagers that went missing and this was the footage they found a year later. The story focuses on 3 amateur film makers who embark on quest to discover the mystery of the elusive ’Blair Witch’ who is responsible for murders in the village. The film is filmed in two parts, one of the actual documentary...

  23. Scripting for the Edit

    and how to turn a scene have opened my eyes to the nascent possibilities that a well-polished script suggests. Besides the seminal reference book "Story" by Robert McKee, I have been very influenced by a book called "Cinematic Storytelling" by Jennifer van Sijll. The book is refreshing in its pared down...

  24. Dickens and Suspense

    Dickens’ masterpiece, A Tale of Two Cities, is full of suspense, mystery, and drama. A Tale of Two Cities is about the French Revolution, and how people in France were scared and poor. People were often falsely accused of treason, murder, or theft. The nobility was very suspicious about the 3rd estate...

  25. The thin blue line - Documentary review

    controversial true story of the arrest and conviction of a drifter, Randall Adams, for the murder of a policeman in 1976. Referred to as "the first movie mystery to actually solve a murder," this film is credited with overturning the conviction of Randall Dale Adams for the murder of Dallas police officer...

  26. A Boys Life

    The book, <u>Boy's Life</u>, has several important scenes which carry on throughout the story. One particular scene that keeps influencing other scenes all through out the story is the very beginning scene. In this scene, the whole plot is set up. It begins in early morning with Cory Mackeson riding...

  27. Sadas

    Dame Agatha Christie DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Her works, particularly...

  28. The Unknown Story of the Lincoln Assassination

    The Unknown Story of the Lincoln Assassination Aubrey Tallon Per. 7 Almost everyone knows the story of the assassination of the United State’s sixteenth President Abraham Lincoln. The story of a president shot from behind while enjoying a play five days after General Lee of the Confederate...

  29. A Critical Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe

    horrendous deeds, and that within every minute lies the possibility for sanity to fail and evil to take over. His morbid poems and short stories delve into the mystery and madness of the human mind. The haunting theme of insanity, irrationality, and death that portray many of Poe’s works is nothing if...

  30. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Essay Writing

    Essay Writing To what extend “The curious incident of the dog in the night-Time” a coming of age story? The curious incident of the dog in the night-time is a coming of age story, or a novel of formation or rite of passage or it is also known as Bildungsroman, this is a novel whose principal subject...

  31. Hound of the Baskervilles- Chapter 6

    traditional [pic]detective story genre with elements of a Gothic tale. The many clues of [pic]the detective case are made even more interesting by the possibility that a [pic]supernatural force could be at work in the form of the evil black hound. The traditional [pic]detective story is made up of a mysterious...

  32. Comparissons of a Lunatics Stories

    freakass Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Black Cat”, both have many similarities and a number of differences. Both stories include aspects of death, alcohol, betrayal, and tombs. One difference is in the ways that the murders took place and how in one story the character was caught...

  33. Dicuss Herdity and Environment and Behavior

    personification of death. Death is personified as a gentleman taking the lady through different phases of life, This Poems essentially brings out the mysteries of life, the childhood ( the school), youth (Gazing grain) , and old age (Setting Sun). The poet describes the journey as a slow drive, passing...

  34. Story of an Hour

    “Good People” Kate Chopin writes The story of an Hour using irony to draw the audience into the plot. Kate Chopin strategically writes her story leading her readers down one road then at the conclusion she dramatically switches our worries to something the audience would never have seen coming. Martin...

  35. unknown

    constructed to emphasize the mystery of the nature of the nature of the monster”. For example, horror movies usually begin with a murder who wears a mask to grab audiences’ attention and the murder is not revealed until later. By the time the murder is told, viewers wonder why the murder is killing and try to...

  36. The Shot That Killed a Nation

    America needed to blame someone. Possibly, because it remains unsolved, the moment of JFK’s death remains a hanging moment in time; it is shrouded in mystery, deceit and worst of all, politics. The most commonly believed and best known explanation is that a man named Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated JFK...

  37. Religion: One Way or Another

    her works; she portrayed the mystery of God's Grace through trivial things, often in grotesque and violent manners. After she was officially diagnosed with lupus she moved back to Milledgeville with her mother, where she continued to write and publish most of her stories, including Wise Blood, Good Country...

  38. None

    innovative film editing.[6] His stories often feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside "icy blonde" female characters.[7][8] Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, murder, and crime. Many of the mysteries, however, are used as decoys...

  39. Arson and Murder

    An Assessment of Arson and Murder in California Abstract There are many degrees of arson and murder that have been determined throughout the years. With careful research from numerous resources in California, the extent and nature of these degrees and murder cases were investigated. The results...

  40. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

    reader who first sees the title of this book might expect that the book is a murder mystery. But it will be contrary to your expectation when you are one fifth through the book. It is not a surprise "coup de grace" that mystery thing brings rather; it seems to have felt greater is singular surprise you...

  41. Cask of Amontillado - Irony & Symbolism

    was a famous poet, short-story writer, and literary critic. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and his parents died when he was very young. His publishing career started with a few poems he submitted anonymously (Edgar Allan Poe). Poe became famous for his tales of mystery and horror and many of his...

  42. A Rose for Emily: Provoked Emotions

    A Rose for Emily: Provoked Emotions While reading the story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, the main character, Emily Grierson, brings out many emotions in the reader. A life of solitude made her for one bizarre character. But the question “Should the readers feel sorry for her or should they...

  43. bob sagget

    and they have a daughter, Nikki Swagger. In Black Light, Swagger unravels a conspiracy behind the murder of his father by a prominent presidential candidate. In Time to Hunt, Swagger solves the mystery of his spotter's death, which culminates into a duel with a Solaratov. This novel also depicts a...

  44. Frankinstien

    William's murder and she was unlawfully punished by death. Henry was murdered by the monster because Victor wouldn’t create another monster for the original monster to talk 2 and possibly love . Elizabeth, Victor’s wife/step-sister was also killed by the monster on her wedding night, this was murder was a...

  45. Jon Benet Ramsey

    often ask ‘Who killed JonBenet?’ The 1996 Christmas murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey shocked America and Boulder County to the core. Seven years earlier just as the Lindbergh baby kid napping and murder seared the nations consciousness, this murder of a beautiful, and wealthy pageant girl renewed...

  46. Musicals

    Bridges of Madison County Bring It On Bullets Over Broadway Burn the Floor Can Can Carrie A Catered Affair Chitty Chitty Bang Bang A Christmas Story The Civil War The Color Purple Come Fly Away Contact Curtains Damn Yankees Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Doctor Zhivago Dreamgirls The Drowsy Chaperone ...

  47. Hawthorne

    allegorical writer whose stories often left {draw:frame} the reader feeling tricked, more understanding of his personal tragedy, and messages in all his tales telling us something. One story that caught my eye was the "pit and the pendulum." It was a good and suspenseful story about a prisoner locked...

  48. The Strategies

    people in east Tennessee. 2) Because she thought it would lead to the plantation. 3) Pitty Sing (cat) caused the accident. 4) The crime was Murder 5) Because what he had done wrong, does not fit the punishment he received. (The crime did not fit the punishment) The Strategies 1) Because...

  49. Mysteries Uncovered in the Book of Exodus

    The Bible is a collection of books that is full of mysteries. There are many interesting stories in it that helps us reflect about life and makes us wonder what is the message or the meaning behind the text. The Book of Exodus probably is one of the most interesting books in the Bible. It is the heart...

  50. Wuthering Heights, a Never-Ending Story

    Wuthering Heights, a Never-Ending Story Every now and then, a reader is lucky enough to find a book which affects their life. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is one of those books. The story unfolds slowly as if it is being told by the fire on a dark and stormy night. It begins with Heathcliff...

  51. Edgar Allen Poe Psychology

    feelings into praised literary works. He took his experiences and thoughts that came from then and used them to create vivid, alluring stories. In one of his short stories entitled The Fall of the House of Usher, Poe depicts a crippling house where twin brother and sister live. Each of them seems to be...

  52. Saving my life

    from second hand stores such as the Goodwill, Salvation Army, and Value Village. Their house was filled with many different genres of literature, murder mysteries, gangster epics, spy thrillers, biographies. Before Alexie gained the ability to read, he would simply pick up his fathers’ books. In phases in...

  53. The Road by Mccarthy

    Death and destruction are the epitome of a doomed world. Everything is destroyed and murders march the streets at night. Hell on earth is a gentle description. Cormac McCarthy's speculation of the end of the world, however, ensures that evil is not victorious. The biblical allusions Cormac McCarthy addresses...

  54. Man in Basement

    pretty much a drunken alcoholic. Mr. Bennet turns out being a deception to everyone, coming out with the fact that he’s a heartless killer for the murder of his boss almost 17 years ago and many other men. He robbed many people and was a part in a 300-cop slaughter in a South American country. He had...

  55. A Story of Psychological Tale

    been written before Poe composed The Cask of Amontillado, Poe's story is significant because it is a Psychological tale. Narrated by a boastful murderer, it opens a window onto the criminal mind as Poe saw it. At the time the story was written, interest in the workings of the criminal mind was significant...

  56. Interpretation of Death 1

    picture can unfold in the reader’s mind as to what is occurring in the story or the point that is trying to be conveyed. The tone set by Dickinson, Poe, and Shakespeare are all shared in that these chosen works are permeated by mystery, hopelessness, and a feeling of frailty and mortality. Their use of...

  57. Violence in Blood Meridian

    cause. The government even paid some men to kill others; this was the way of the west in the mid-1800s; A time when cults were paid to commit mass murder of entire villages of Indians. Cormac McCarthy uses extreme violence and war mentality found in Blood Meridian to break the misconception of the 20th...

  58. The chief impression a Gothic text leaves us with is the loneliness of the protagonist’ Is this a view borne out by the three texts you have studied?

    protagonist to be the chief impression of the text. In Angela Carter’s collection of short stories ‘The Bloody Chamber’ story itself can be used to show the narrator as lonely and isolated within the ‘castle of murder’ as she is trapped ‘into marriage into exile’ of the unknown ‘ambiguous place’ which is...

  59. Murder

    Committing Murder The problem with committing murder is the high risk of being caught. When you decide that murder is justified, the problem of how to do it and how to avoid being found out are your first thoughts. Unfortunately, the police have become very sophisticated in their investigating skills...

  60. The Plot of the Murders

    Truman Capote chooses to reveal the very plot of the murders and the entire story early in the beginning of his novel In Cold Blood. By doing this, the audience is shown early on a different side to his main characters, Dick and Perry, thus allowing readers to sympathize and even develop an emotional...