Detective Essays

Perched on the counter facing the double French doors in the lobby, I watched Detective Smarts, Beachside Police, park his vehicle behind the police cruiser, and slowly step out of the car. During the summer months, sometimes the heat and humidity are almost unbearable. It was one of those days and the detective worked up a sweat walking the short distance to the front door. He wore dress slacks, the crease non-existent, and a short sleeves shirt, no tie. He didn’t appear to be in a good mood, but

The job of a homicide detective is to investigate cases dealing with murder. A homicide detective evaluates and manages the crime scene, documents the scene, processes the scene, analyzes the area, and suspects. Homicide detectives may need to talk to loved ones, examine and investigate horrid scenes, or work in horrible conditions. The responsibilities of a homicide detective are to gather any evidence at a homicide scene, interview all witnesses, insure everything is done within the scope of the

many detective fictions, there always been a companion by the side of the detectives. Sometimes, they act as the narrator, and shoulder the task of showing the detectives’ legendary deed of solving the case to the public. And at other times, they will act as the assistants to help the detectives do some investigation. Dupin and the narrator “I”, Holmes and Dr. Watson, Father Brown and his friend the once-bandit Flambeau, Poirot and his assistant Hasting, the list of the combination of detective and

Di Renjie, a Detective in Tang Dynasty, is like his modern western equivalent, Sherlock Holmes. Detective Dee was good at solving unusual and weird cases. This story is about Detective Dee who was in jail for eight years because he does not agree Empress Wu Zetian to become the emperor. The imperial court occurred a strange bizarre death case and Empress Wu Zetian had to use Detective Dee again to solve the case. This confusing case gives people a lot of interest to watch. This movie get a lot of

This research paper will talk about detective fiction as a genre in literature and its development throughout the centuries. Detective fiction basically deals with crime and finding out who did the crime followed by the facing of repercussions by the offender. This theme of crimes and sins has been prevalent since the beginning as we could see it in Biblical tales of Cain and Abel as well as Adam and Eve. In both these tales, a “crime” is committed and then the consequences are faced by them. In

In the movie seven the two detectives Somerset and Mills faced problems that make veterans and young detective face expect that these detectives are chasing a serial killer together. From the perspective of Somerset, Mills is a young detective that doesn’t really know much about the big city crime. With their first crime scene to investigate together Mills seems like the person that wants to run there the crime scene at slap handcuff on anyone. Mills has a very narrow site and draw to conclusions

In the stories “An Invitation to Murder” by Josh Pachter and “The Dying Detective” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, specific events and details emphasize various similarities that coincide throughout. One similarity that is alike in both stories includes situational irony. Both stories have main events that are driven by situational irony that advances the plot forward. In “The Dying Detective” Sherlock Holmes feigns his death in order to capture a criminal, although the people close to him such as Dr

As a anti-detective fiction, Mumbo Jumbo, is no doubt has its own detective character. Let’s first observe Reed’s detective from his appearance. “He is a familiar sight in Harlem, wearing his frock coat, opera hat, smoked glasses and carrying a cane”(Reed, Mumbo Jumbo 24). If only Papa Labas holds a pipe, we will no doubt identify him as a caricature of Sherlock Holmes. By dressing Labas in an out-dated iconic Victorian clothing style, Reed intentionally mimics Sherlock Holmes’ appearance. Although

Research Paper Is Detective fiction exciting? Does Gothic fiction sound interesting? An American author named Edgar Allan Poe shaped and molded those two genres. In fact, Poe fathered the Detective genre, and many modern authors still utilize his writing style. His terrifying works of Gothic fiction affected the modern “realm of horror” from novels to movies, traces of Poe’s style still lurk about. Poe’s life inspired him to write the way he did in ways that also inspired others. Edgar Allan Poe’s

The Hard-boiled Detective had plenty of influence on American popular culture stemming from its roots in the 1920’s. These novels entertained tons of people throughout the country and abroad. But it had become a big influence on the youth at that time and helped shape the future. The implications that it left helped many people become literate. These Detective books were not too expensive due to the fact that they were pulp fiction. Pulp refers to the way that the paper was made, it became

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 detective as a lone avenger. Finally, there’s an emphasis on macho action and explicit violence, with no room for a woman. All four characteristics are in my view essential to the genre, but can a woman be just as hard core? Hard-boiled is the expression most often used to refer to Raymond Chandler 's 1930’s private eye, Philip Marlowe in “Farewell, My Lovely.” So as time passes by, hard-boiled detective stories shift and one is given the

Today I will be analyzing all three versions of The Maltese Falcon film’s the scene I’ve chosen to review the scene where Spade is visited and questioned by police detectives Lt. Dundy and Sergeant Tom Polhaus. Although the films are based on the same novel The Maltese Falcon (1930), they differ in many ways I’ll use the scene I mentioned above to show the differences in mood, setting, the behavior and attitude of the main characters in this scene. The second thing I’ll do is show how breaking down

Joseph Oda is introduced as a detective colleague to long-time partner, Sebastian Castellanos, and rookie detective, Juli Kidman. He’s an efficient and hard worker; Oscar often finds him staying late in his office late after work hours. Sebastian deems him trustworthy and dedicated to his work. But he can be careless at times; jumping into action before thinking things through. This often leads to Sebastian needing to save him; “Sebastian, I am not a ‘damsel in distress’; now put me down dammit!”

Although pursuing the career of a police detective is not granted through collegiate experience and education alone, it is one of the most sought after jobs in law enforcement. In fact, earning the privilege of the occupational title ‘police detective’ is often referred to as “rewarding”, however, this position comes with more baggage than any patrol officer would face on a day-to-day basis. For example, police detectives are granted more responsibility with expectations to investigate crimes, gather

series of novels by Craig Rusell the British short story writer and novelist. The debut novel of the ongoing Jan Fabel series was Blood Eagle that was published in 2005. The series of novels are generally classified as mystery/detective thrillers. Jan Fabel is a modern day detective that tanks as Principal Chief Commissar known as Kriminalhauptkommisar in German. As Commissar he heads the Murders Squad (Mordkommission) of the Hamburg Metropolitan Police. Fabel studied history before he trained as a police

Michael Bennett is a NYPD detective who is faced with a new murderer in this book, Run for your Life. As usual, the novel starts off from the killer’s point of view, whom is named the Teacher. The Teacher has one goal and one goal only, to kill the rich, the arrogant, and the greedy. We are first introduced to The Teacher as a man who is seemingly leaving his life behind, as he leaves his house, as he drove his SUV straight through the garage door, saying “That’ll teach her”, which then gives him

was a dark and stormy night. In The small village of the hidden leaf when the body of local merchant, Peter Gill, was found in his office. The cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the head and the police were quick to label it as a murder. Detective Sarah Brown was assigned to the case, and she quickly set to work trying to piece together the events leading up to the murder. She interviewed everyone who had had any contact with Peter in the days leading up to his death, but no one had any information

True Detective is a TV series which deals with many social problems in addition to the personal ones. The series is somehow based on the issue of morality both of the society and of the characters themselves. The relations between three characters of the series, Rust, Marty and Maggie, give the most concrete examples of this issue of morality. It can be said that there is a moral ambiguity in True Detective in relation to the things the characters have done. Thus, it is possible to examine this point

did not kill him. Another reason in the end part of the story why I found Mary interesting was when she offered the police detectives the leg of lamb that she killed her husband with. “Why don’t you eat up that lamb that’s in the oven. It’ll be cooked just right by now”. This show also that Mary is turning to not think that she killed her husband. When the police detectives are eating their leg of lamb on of them says “Probably right under our very noses. What you think, Jack?”, and it is really