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    A detective is a police officer‚ whose duty is to detect criminals‚ by in-depth investigation of cases. When attempting to solve a crime‚ detectives conduct a criminal investigation that seeks all the facts about a crime to help determine the truth: what happened and who is responsible. This involves making a preliminary and final investigation. A detective’s task is to gather‚ organize‚ and use information about social behavior. To effectively complete that task a detective should possess

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    Senior Research Paper: Homicide Detective Do you ever wonder what happens prior to a murder‚ what lead to this outcome‚ what the victim felt or even what the murder felt? A homicide detective is the one who figures all this out. A homicide is when one human being kills another human being and a detective is the one that finds out why? Why it happened? How did it happen? Who caused it? Where did it occur? And What lead to this act of violence? The reason I chose this career is because it allows

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    Jacquel Thompson Detective Thompson GUST 1270 21 November 2011                                                       Homicide Detective      I plan to become a homicide Detective.  A detective is a investigator‚ either a member of a police agency or a private person. In order to become a homicide detective I must attain a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice. There are state required exams required in order to become a homicide detective.  I will need to take a lot of classes in higher

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    Dr. Ki Magdalen ENGL 3056 24 November 2014 Classical Detective Story─ A subversive genre of the Victorian America Detective novel has been under the limelight since eighteenth century when the genre of classical detective fiction was born‚ then the development of detective story has undergone the school of Golden Age and hard-boiled until now. With its prevalence among the society‚ critics have been drawn toward whether the genre of detective story could help sustain or subvert the existing value

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    The Ladies Detective Agency- by Alexander McCall Smith Alexander McCall Smith was born in Zimbabwe 1948. Smith’s first year as a student was in Botswana but then moved to Scotland and was educated at law school. Today he is professor in Medical Law and writer to several world-famous novels‚ including the series about Mma Ramotswe. Smith has been teaching at universities in several African countries‚ including Botswana‚ where he has lived for some time. The Ladies Detective Agency is the first

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    What is a homicide Detective‚ A homicide Detective is a police detective who investigates clues used to identify the suspect in a murder case. Detectives are relied on finding out how the victim was killed and by who which they were by.They also have to find out what kind of crime this is. Detectives have different methods to find out these crimes such as clues‚ different clues and materials show what kind of killing this was. Interrogation‚ detectives ask questions to the witness of the victim and

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    Feminism in crime fictions – Agatha Christie as a feminist writer From the late nineteenth century‚ different movements started to work all around the world‚ protesting for the equality of women in the political and social life. The thesis of the feminism covered every aspect of life within a short period of time‚ so it had a great influence on literature as well. The feminist theories penetrated most of the genres and sub-genres; consequently‚ they also affected the genre of crime fiction which had been

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    suspect. " Detective Union’s morning read had been interrupted by the sweet‚ fulfilling chimes of‚ help. She knew it was only a matter of time and she’d been anticipating it. She hadn’t been excited about visiting Florida‚ she was however‚ eager to work the case. She’d been following this case all the way from Chicago and just last year‚ she’d been adamant about bringing a person of interest in for questioning. Unfortunately‚ she didn’t have enough evidence to back it. " Detective Union‚ good

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    sub-genres of detective fiction and hard-boiled fiction is one of them. What exactly is hard-boiled detective fiction? Hard-Boiled detective fiction is fiction that features tough‚ cynical‚ urban private eyes who expose corruption and frequently get injured in the course of their investigations ("Detective Fiction‚" Literary). Hard-Boiled fiction is considered one of the more popular sub-genres of detective fiction; there have been numerous films and novels about urban detectives exposing corruption

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    Study of Crime Fiction Since the form has never been perfected‚ it has never become fixed. The academians have never got their dead hands on it. It is still fluid‚ still too various for easy classification.(Horsley 1) While Raymond Chandler‚ the author of those words‚ would surely be against the classification attempted here‚ these “dead hands” of mine will attempt to share a study of what has been described as the most widely read type of literature: crime fiction. Crime fiction is the genre

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