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"Agatha Christie is perhaps the best-known mystery writer in the world, and her novels, short stories, and plays have been translated into numerous languages, reprinted many times, presented on film and television, and remain important and widely read works to this day. She created numerous popular characters, with the two most important of these being the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and the elderly woman of a small English village who solves crimes because she knows human nature, Miss Marple. Agatha Christie came to typify the English murder mystery of the Golden Age of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and her style and range would have a major influence on the development of the mystery novel in both England and America that continues as writers try either to emulate her or differentiate themselves from her as a way of making their own mark."

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This paper provides an essay that focuses on various techniques used by Agatha Christie in her famous mystery novel "Ten Little Indians." The essay discusses the conflict and tension between characters, red herrings, clues, similes, and the use of imagery by Christie and what the significance of these are to her story.

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"Agatha Christie's murder mystery 'Ten Little Indians' plays off the famous nursery rhyme in which all ten Indians meet their demise until there were none. (Christie) At the end of her novel there are none left either, as Vera Claythorne hangs herself. The discovery of a manuscript by police reveals Judge Wargrave a total surprise because of Christie's ability to use characterization to build conflict and tension to divert readers from solving the mystery. As each of the ten invited guests is murdered the remaining..."

Tags:murder, killings, nursery rhyme, suspense, fear, Christie, story

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This paper is an analysis of the leading characters in "Witness for the Prosecution," a short story by Agatha Christie. The paper looks at Leonard Vole, accused of murder, his solicitor, Mr. Mayherne, precise and analytical, and the devious and deceitful Romaine Hiegler, one of the most complex characters in the mystery short story genre. The paper demonstrates how the multiple levels of deceit make this a memorable tale.

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"In "Witness for the Prosecution," Agatha Christie shows her mastery of the mystery genre. The story illustrates her ability to use plot devices to marvelous effect. The true strength of her story, however, lies in her creation of remarkable characters: Leonard Vole, Mr. Mayherne, and Romaine Heilger. Leonard Vole is accused of murder and seemingly lost in a daze: "I can't seem to realize yet that I'm charged with murder -- murder" (Christie, 1). He had met the elderly and wealthy Emily French, and spent considerable time with her, apparently misleading her as to his marital status, so that..."

Tags:christie, mystery, murder

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We can also see the kind of xenophobic stereotypes that Christie used when we compare her works to detective fiction taken from an entirely different cultural tradition: When we think about the detective novel, we are most likely to see in our mind?s eye Sherlock Holmes?s deerstalker cap or hear the Belgian accents of Hercule Poirot. The genre of detective fiction ? with its traditional elements of the seemingly perfect crime, the wrongly accused suspect at whom circumstantial evidence points (in many cases, the bungling of the dim-witted police (in opposition to the cleverness of the private operator), the astonishing powers of observation and superior mind of the detective, and a startling and unexpected denouement (quite likely taking place in a parlor) in which the detective reveals how the identity of the culprit was ascertained ? seems a quintessentially Western concept.

Tags:Christie, Conrad, detective, stereotype, ethnocentric, detective novel

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The paper deals with an analysis of the detective story "Ten Little NIiggers", including character analysis. Theme and symbols in the story are mentioned and explained. The writer answers the question why Christie was and still is so popular, by means of how she attracts the reader. It examines how Christie breaks the rule of a mystery genre and what makes her outstanding detective stories writer.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Agatha Christie: Queen of the Mystery Genre
Body: Analysis of Christie's Rule-breaking Style
Conclusion
Literature List

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"Agatha Christie as a queen of a mystery genre. What exactly makes Agatha Christie's detective stories popular worldwide' She always manages to keep the reader curious about current events in the story, while giving them a burning desire to solve the mystery and see things come to some sort of resolution. The end of each and every Christie's detective story is so unpredictable, that sometimes one gets mad, angry, or even disappointed with him or herself, wondering why he or she could not discover the answers before they were revealed. This paper will examine the unpredictable, rule-breaking style of Christie, and more specifically, how this style is both important and essential to the success of Christie's mystery novel, Ten Little Niggers."

Tags:analysis, detective, genre, indians, justice, mystery, story, symbols, wargrave'

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The paper analyzes and reviews "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie. The writer suggests that, in the book Christie seems to be commenting not only on the social injustice of the caste system in England, but also on how it is so ingrained in society that everyone adheres to it, no matter what.

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"The author also shows this in Vera's seemingly compulsive need to let everyone know she is an employee, rather than a guest. She immediately indicates she is a "lesser" being than the guests, and there to serve them, although she does not even know how at the beginning of the story. England's society is based on societal levels and the book helps the reader understand how important they are to English people. Americans may not understand their need to categorize people into societal levels, but at least they will understand how it works a little better by reading this book. It also shows there is something decidedly different about all the guests, which makes the reader want to continue on and discover just what it is."

Tags:strict, caste, system, compulsive, societal, frontier, justice

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This paper explains that generic competence refers to the ability of the reader to understand the implied language, the setting and the period of time of a specific genre that has its own system of codes, called generic repertoire with which the reader has to be familiar to fully understand the meaning of the story. The author points out that every mystery story, such as Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution", contains an enigma that must be solved by the protagonist; the reader must have the generic competence to understand all the information that is given by the narrator. The paper relates that the reader's generic competence of the fairy tales includes the knowledge of its origin, characters, moral role and related primary fairy tales; Angela Carter's "The Tiger's Bride" contains a moral role; therefore, the implied reader must look for a message inside the story.

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""The Tiger's Bride" has a strong connection to other fairy tales such as "Cupid and Psyche", "Beauty and The Beast" and "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon". The importance of generic competence here is the primary readings of the related fairy tales, in order to be able to see the similarity and difference between them all. In all four stories the most important similarity is that they all involved the sacrificing of a daughter by her father. In "The Tiger's Bride" the father had lost his daughter in a card game and she therefore must go with the beast. There is also the mention of a lamb- " ...where the lion lies down with the lamb" (51), "The tiger will never lie down with the lamb" (64). The implied reader's generic competence relates the lamb with the sacrificing of Isaac in the Bible. Isaac's father, Abraham, was about to sacrifice him to god but in the end he didn't and instead a lamb was sacrificed."

Tags:implied, genre, codes, enigma, moral-role

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This paper explains that Christie details in his book that a person has difficulty knowing who are the worst criminals, the men and women prisoners or the individuals who run the penal industry. The book details how the United States relies on the criminal justice system to enrich business interests by following the model of corporate America. The disciplinary system is supposedly designed to control so-called dangerous populations that challenge the prevailing social order. It also explains that the criminal network is used more to build economic growth for private concerns than to enhance public safety and well-being.

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"Profits will be the main motive regardless whether a private firm is an outsource of the government, for building the prisons, supplying the equipment or providing the services, or the firm is the actual organization running the institutions. Naturally, rehabilitating the inmates, lowering the crime rate or incarceration time, or reducing the number of prisoners does not rate as a high priority since each of these individuals represent monetary gain."

Tags:criminology, prison, inmate, crime, safety, well-being, system

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This paper discusses in detail the changes Agatha Christie found necessary in order to adapt her short story "Witness for the Prosecution" to a theater format. Various adaptations are analyzed, such as changes in dialogue, point of view, visual characterization aspects, and the use of accents.

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This paper looks at theauthor in multiple ways, in terms of discussing in detail the changes Agatha Christie found necessary in order to adapt her short story "Witness for the Prosecution" to a theater format. Various adaptations are analyzed, such as changes in dialogue, point of view, visual characterization aspects and the use of accents.