What is the purpose of a foreword in a book? What genre is The Hound of the Baskervilles? What mystery genre is Murder at St. Oswald's? What is the motive for V's personal vendetta? What is hard-boiled crime fiction? What are the features of realistic fiction?
What distinguishes hard-boiled crime fiction from other types of crime fiction? What is the book Dark Matter about? What genre is The Odyssey? What is a cowboy in Neuromancer? What is a novelette series? What genre is the book Nothing But the Truth?
Laughing at this pointless waste of celluloid, not with it. This is the offspring of a kindergardener's rambling, made up short story & a Fellini plot on LSD. I guess some people can read a gum wrapper & contemplate the secrets of the universe, but this short is not esoteric, not av...
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood. The Den (2013) More like this >> A...
What's interesting is who makes the request: an Agent Alex Casey. Casey is a character in the Alan Wake universe, but he's one of Wake's own creations. The novels that made Wake famous all star Casey as a hardboiled detective (he actually sounds a lot like another Remedy character, ...
"Fort Freak" is a detective story, based in the police station of one New York precinct. The case of a 30-year-old mass-murder is reopened and stirs up a lot of trouble. Each chapter tells of one small incident (some in "present time", the 2000s; some at the time of the crime...
The story itself is ultimately a hardboiled detective story set in a world that is part science-fiction, part fantasy (Dusk, in particular, reminded me a lot of the “Other” world in Gaiman’s Coraline.) It’s fast-paced and creepy, with plenty of twists and turns along the way. Noo...
No matter the genre of literature, it is important that all stories contain some realistic elements. Readers need to be able to understand the characters and conflict in the story to engage in the text. Answer and Explanation: Realistic fiction is a genre of literature that features story eleme...
If you love murder mysteries, this watchlist is for you. From the best detective movies, to light-hearted TV shows, there’s a murder for everyone to solve.
Drinking is not uncommon in the classic, hard-boiled private detective story, and Raymond Chandler’s hero Philip Marlowe is often seen with a drink in his hand. As one of the story’s main motifs it serves both an overt purpose for the character and an underlying purpose for the reader....