...Essay: True Detective True Detective is an extraordinary TV series, written by Nic Pizzolatto, about two Louisiana State Police detectives investigating a series of ritualistic murders. Pizzolatto has created a series beyond brilliant. The amazing structure, impeccable writing, marvelous acting, and frame story have made True Detective an immediate classic. At the end of each episode you will be on the edge of your seat craving another hour. True Detective is based on two investigators, one of them is a typical overconfident investigator, Woody Harrleson, and the other is an intellectual, nihilistic man, Matthew McConaughey. This series alternates between 1995, when detectives Martin Hart (Harrelson) and Rust Cohle (McConaughey) start working a case together, and 2012, when the two detectives work a new case that has strong similarities to the case in 1995. State internal affairs detectives are interviewing both men separately and believe that Rust may have committed the old crime, new crime or both. Rust and Marty investigate a ritualistic murder in rural Louisiana. As they attempt to uncover leads in this disturbing case, their own lives intersect in fascinating, yet explosive ways. Though the investigation itself is interesting, the interpersonal behavior of the obsessive and frequently conflicting lead characters makes this drama seem so much fresher than all other criminal television series. The structure in this series is unique. In 2012, two detectives are interviewed...
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...Crime Fiction: The Hard-boiled Detective In Raymond Chandler’s essay ”The Simple Art of Murder” (1944) he introduces the world to his personal definition of a true hero in a new branch of crime-fiction. The essay circulates around a new type of crime story, having the real world as its steppingstone. Contrary to the typical British so-called Golden Age Detective Fiction, this sort of crime story reflects itself in the real world, a decentred world. A world that undermines basic predicates, such as order, stability, causality and resolution. Writers who occupy themselves writing these stories strive against describing a centerless world, in order to capture reality and put it straight to paper. He describes it as, “…not a very fragrant world… but continues”…it is the world you live in.” (p. 197) Chandler singles out Dashiell Hammet as the one person who actually rescued crime fiction by bringing it back to the people, in a renewed version, that embodies life in the hard-boiled world. According to Chandler, the hero, solving crimes in a ruthless city containing only people with a perverse satisfaction of being corrupt, must be a man of certain character: “He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man.” (p. 197), saying that the detective, if necessary has to have the ability to identify himself with anyone, and simultaneously also be able to elevate himself from the general population, in order to create distance from the violence-torn local society. With...
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...Detective I have always loved mysteries and solving them, so naturally, I would want to become a detective or criminal investigator, a job that is about solving mysteries. Before, I did not know for sure that I wanted to be a detective, but a single piece of fiction from Stephen King named “Mr. Mercedes” set it in stone that being a detective is what I want to be. I want to understand the specific pathway to reach the career I want and the specifics on what the job entails through this research paper. Early on in America’s history, detectives did not exist. This is because the colonists would have been suspicious that the government was spying on them, which could cause trouble. Therefore, if someone wanted justice for a crime, they...
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...Luck in Crime Solving Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centers upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective. It is the most popular form of hardboiled crime fiction and mystery fiction. In the story, the detective uses reasoning to piece together various clues left behind by the perpetrator to form a coherent story of how the murder took place. It is even written down as rules that “the culprit must be determined by logical deductions” and “the means of detecting it (the murder), must be rational and scientific” (Van Dine, 1928). Through the years, three major forms of reasoning have been frequently used to solve the cases- deductive, inductive and abductive. Although these three methods vary in terms of uncertainty involved, a common intuition that can be inferred about gaining knowledge from the rules is that knowledge is true belief that has been acquired in a non-accidental or non-lucky fashion. However, I will be drawing on specifically three types of luck- evidential epistemic luck, content epistemic luck and pure luck, and how luck is often underestimated as a contributing factor towards solving crimes along with reasoning. The first type of luck I will be discussing is evidential epistemic luck, where the detective is lucky to be able to possess certain knowledge in the first place (Pritchard, 2005). The animated series “Detective Conan” follows the adventures of Kudo Shinichi, a teenage detective prodigy who was inadvertently...
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...The Devolution of Detectives in the Mystery Genre. As I thought about which part of the class and material I found the most important. I came to the conclusion that the key player in every mystery story is the detective. As stated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “the world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes”. When reviewing all the material covered in class English 239, this statement is obviously true. In this essay I will be discussing the devolution of the detective’s role. The most amazing detectives can be found in the earlier pieces of literature. In traditional mysteries there are a few notable authors which were covered in English 239. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allen Poe are these two authors. When the mystery genre was created by Edgar Allen Poe, the detectives were made out to be amazing. Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” begins with a scene that should engrave faith into the detective. The reader is introduced to detective Monsieur C. Augueste Dupin as an unimaginable genius. Dupin was so intelligent it was almost like Dupin could read your mind. As the narrator stated “how was it possible you should know I was thinking of ___?” Another example of detective Monsieur C. Augueste Dupin talent is towards the end of the story. When they find the finger prints Dupin automatically knows it was not a murder conjured by a human rather a monkey and he even knows the breed of this...
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...Purposes of Titles All stories have titles, right? Sometimes, those titles are just that, titles. At other times, the titles are there to give the reader hints about the story they are going to read. Titles tell how the story should be told. In detective fiction, it can give clues about the inevitable murder. Using examples from the stories: “The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tape-Measure Murder”, and “The House on Goblin Wood” by John Dickson Carr, multiple connections between the story and its title will be explained. For the story “The House on Goblin Wood” by John Dickson Carr, the title is hinting at where the murder took place both times. Throughout the story, the scene of the crime is described many times. Masters’ is telling H.M. that Victoria Adams’ family “owned a cottage…on the edge of Goblin Wood, opposite the lake” (LADF 139) and that at when the child disappeared the house was “the place was all locked up inside against drafts” (LADF 139). That is the first time in that the scene of the crime is brought up. After the first description of the house, it is mentioned again when H.M and company saw when they were driving up to the cottage is described as, “stretched the ten-acre gloom of what is fancifully known as Goblin Wood” (LADF 141). The title points out that something happened at a house in Goblin Wood and it was soon found out that a murder took place there. The title of this story, “The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe, is telling the...
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...“Invitation to a Murder” and “The Dying Detective” are both immensely intricate mystery stories. A similarity between the two is that both included premeditated murders. In “Invitation to a Murder” Eleanor Abbott intended on murdering her husband, Gregory. Gregory was comatose; he had been fatally injured in a horrid skiing incident. The old man possessed a weak heart that required a certain medicine on specific time intervals. The medicine would speed up his heart rate to normal. Eleanor intentionally neglected his demands; Gregory’s heart soon stopped beating. Culverton Smith, a character associated with “The Dying Detective” had planned out the death of Victor Savage. Victor had been delivered a tiny ivory box; once opened, it would prick...
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...The detective stories (or detective fiction) are a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional or amateur—investigates a crime. These types of crimes are usually murder. The value of crime fiction, and by extension the value of collecting crime fiction works, has been debated at length. John Carter explained, in the 1930s, that, for crime fiction: The detective story shows every sign of having come to stay. As a literary form it is not yet 100 years old, and there have not been wanting during its most recent heyday (which is still going on) certain crabbed person to prophesy that such a boom must end in a slump, with the implied, or sometimes explicit rider that the sooner this happens the better for the republic of letters. (1934/ 1947, pp. 453– 454) One of the earliest examples of detective fiction is Voltaire's Zadig (1748), which features a main character who performs feats of analysis. Detective fiction in the English-speaking world is considered to have begun in 1841 with the publication of Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" itself, featuring "the first fictional detective, the eccentric and brilliant C. Auguste Dupìn". Poe devised a "plot formula that's been successful ever since, give or take a few shifting variables." Poe followed with further Auguste Dupin tales: "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" in 1843 and "The Purloined Letter" in 1845. Arthur Conan Doyle had a longstanding interest in mystical subjects...
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...On the haunt to find the suspect who simultaneously disappeared after committing a burglary is found by our uniformed police officer and transported to the burglary squad. He matches the description given by the last witness Mr. Mitchell around 3:00pm near the time of the offense. Being asked by Detective Johnson, Mr. Mitchell remembers everything. He remembers the physical description and the vehicle description. He’s more than the last witness, he’s a concern neighbor. Once detective Johnson arrives to the burglary squad, he recognizes the fresh cut on the suspect’s hand, and with an insured look, he knows it’s him. Expressly, Officer Butler will conduct a warrantless legal search while notifying any watchers to remind nears their home,...
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...was interrogated at the sheriff's office by police detectives thought the late afternoon and evening of September 6 and the early morning of September 7. On September 10, Montejo was brought before a judge for what is known in Louisiana as a "72-hour hearing" a preliminary hearing required under state law. Letter that same day, two police detectives visited Montejo back at the prison and requested the accompany them on an excursion to location to the murder weapon (which Montejo had earlier indicated he had thrown into a lake). He was again read his Miranda rights and agreed to go along. While in the police car, he wrote an inculpatory letter of apology to the victim's wife. Only upon their return did Montejo finally meet his court appointed attorney, who was quite upset that the detectives had interrogated his client in his absence. III. Case History At trial, Montejo's letter of apology was introduced into evidence by State of Louisiana, over defense counsel's objective. The jury convicted Montejo of first-degree murder and he was sentence to death. The Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed his conviction, concluding the since Montejo has never formally invoked his rights to counsel officers where not prohibited from further interrogation outside the presence of counsel. IV. Legal Issues May a criminal defendant that has never personally and formally invoked his right to consul be questioned by police officer or detective after waiving his rights to consul, consistent with...
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...They gather facts and collect evidence in order to protect the people from further harm. Their job results in physically demanding, stressful, and dangerous everyday tasks. In fact, police detectives are some of the smartest people out there. The job outlook is 5%, which is slower than average. A police detective requires a high school education, lots of training, and a good sense of judgment. For one thing, becoming a police detective takes lots of rigorous training and just like any other career, an education. The education requirements consist of a high school degree; usually a police department will prefer a college education and sometimes even require it. Something that is a great addition to the education requirements is the knowledge of a foreign...
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...the police academy and his first assignment where he is partnered with a cop who willingly admitted that he accepted free food and looked the other way for minor infractions such as double parking. This scene becomes important as we begin to realize that, even though this I minor, there is a level of acceptable corruption within the New Your City police force and the Frank was not a willing participant in it at all. The next time we see Frank, he is responding to a possible rape call which he and his partner break-up and arrest one of the suspects. The lead detective, I assume, later beats the suspect and Seprico seems reluctant to want to participate in. Once the suspect is being taken to prison Seprico talks him into giving up the names of the other two assailants, Frank calls for assistance, receives none and makes the arrests himself. Once he gets the suspects back to the police station, he is bullied by the detectives to give the credit for the arrest. He relinquishes the arrest but here you can see that he is interested in getting promoted fast. We now cut to a few different scenes involving hes love life, family and living arrangements that, in my opinion, took away from the story a bit. Especially the scene where he is with the dancer at a night club and wanting people to call him Paco. The part about another name wasn't really...
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...is no need to arm the police in the article ‘Guns and police do not mix’. This essay will evaluate several main ideas in both of these articles. Firstly, Public points out that arming the police does help protect people. When citizens see police who are carrying weapons, they probably feel safer. Nevertheless, Wright believes that there will be an increase in the amount of weapon usage on duty if police are armed. As a result, police may not use less dangerous ways to catch criminals. Secondly, Public mentions that police needs to have weapons to protect themselves. They mainly use them as a tool to defend rather than to injure criminals. Conversely, Wright emphasizes that it is possible to neglect some fundamental issues of society, so detective work and policing strategies need to be concerned about more than arming the police. Discussion: In these two articles, there is a contradiction between the authors’ ideas. While Public seems to fail to argue the idea about the protection for citizens, the point about police’s self-defense may be persuasive. However, Wright’s explanation about the increase in using weapons is unconvincing while there may be success in the point about the ignorance of society’s failures. Firstly, Public’s claim about protecting law-abiding citizens may be unconvincing. According to the author, people may have safer feeling when seeing police having weapons. Nevertheless, this can not be applied in all situations because arming the police can help raise...
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...Chapter Four “You feel like shooting some hoops?” Said Officer Thompson to Detective Carpenter as he was pretending to shoot a jumpshot from his seat in front of the detectives desk. “I think we need to take a little break.” “You know, tired minds don’t think to well.” He continued. As he was now tucking in his shirt upon rising from his chair. Officer Thompson was a pretty good former N.B.A. reserve player. Having played for the Philadelphia 76ers before injuring his knee in his rookie season. Second team All-American out of Temple University. 6-6 and only 28. He was still a formidable opponent between the blocks. And nobody wanted to play H.O.R.S.E with him either. Hardly anybody could match his dunks. “Yea.” “Maybe you’re right.” “Not for too long though.” “This fucker ain’t resting to much so we can’t afford to either.” Responded the detective. He was tapping on the desk with his pencil while looking at the list of victims. They had been in the office since early this morning working on the case and had been going over several stacks of paper concerning the victims and all of the new data seemed to be a bit over whelming by now. At this point, they were yet unawares of the latest victim, the girl in Florida had not yet been found. Charlie had pulled her into the bushes and covered her up with a stack of delivery pallets he had found nearby. “I keep thinking about number 29.” Said the detective. “You mean the pizza delivery guy?” “Yea.” “You know, I don’t think he even planned...
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...all my friends at the 12th 3 of 110 05-05-2013 19:50 Heat Wave - Richard Castle file:///C:/Users/zainab/Downloads/Richard.Castle_Nikki.Heat.01_Hea... Contents One It was always the same for her when she arrived… Two Nikki Heat’s footsteps echoed back at her off the concrete… Three Heat and Rook trailed two steps behind Noah Paxton as… Four Nikki didn’t go home following the movie after all. She… Five There is very little chance of a high-speed pursuit on… Six Nikki stepped into the rooftop bar of the Soho House… Seven Even as she stood frozen in her hallway, Nikki’s first… Eight When Detective Heat nosed the Crown Vic out of underground… Nine Nikki Heat’s apartment building was not the Guilford. It was… Ten Nikki led him wordlessly into her bedroom and set the… Eleven Thirty minutes later, Detective Heat stepped off the Guilford’s elevator… Twelve The three detectives and Rook maintained a tense silence as… Thirteen In the precinct interrogation room, the biker, Brian Daniels, seemed… Fourteen Raley came back into the bullpen dangling his sport coat… Fifteen Jameson Rook stood in the precinct Observation Room staring in… Sixteen Nikki was tucking in her blouse as she sailed down… Seventeen The receptionist at Starr Real Estate Development popped back on… Eighteen On their drive back from the M.E.’s office, Nikki didn’t… Nineteen Heat, Raley, Ochoa, and Rook crossed through the lobby of… Twenty “Stop squirming,” said Noah...
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