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	EnglishSpace: Alfred Hitchcock’s Place in the Legacy of Manichaeus
		Two detectives in the east, two detectives in the west, two fugitives, two messages, two Charlies; the list goes on for a very long time.
		Some sort of pathology is hinted at in Frenzy, but we are not made privy to what might have upset the psychopathic greengrocer’s mental applecart.
		Perhaps it is a positive sign that current literature indicates a return to the need for some sort of reason for murderous behavior.
	esmeraldus.blogspot.com /2005/02/alfred-hitchcocks-place-in-legacy-of.html (4881 words)

	List of fictional detective teams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This list includes pairs of characters who appear in a series of novels or short stories, not characters who are teamed only for a single story.
		Where two detectives work together, they are listed as A and B; where a single detective is regularly accompanied by a non-detecting sidekick or chronicler they are listed as A with B.
		This is a list of fictonal detective teams from popular detective fiction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_detective_teams (200 words)

	Lead and Gold
		Figures like Holmes or Peter Wimsey are fictional and bear little resemblance to real detectives.
		A large percentage of the conventional wisdom on brands and advertising comes from consumer packaged goods-- soft drinks, razor blades, toothpaste or detergent.
		Coke and Pepsi work hard to create a sense of uniqueness-- yet in Wal*mart or Giant they sit side by side as one of 50 soft drink options.
	www.leadandgold.blogspot.com /2003_10_01_leadandgold_archive.html (8068 words)

	IS 574: Adult Materials & Services: Mysteries
		Suspicious Women is a "list of mystery fiction featuring women who are private investigators, police officers, amateur detectives, and in one instance, a highly moral hit woman." Produced by the Chicago Public Library.
		Also includes lists of mysteries featuring dogs and cats.
		Gumshoes, Sleuths and Snoopers is a crime fiction content database based on a paperback and pulp fiction collection of novels published between 1930 and 1960.
	web.utk.edu /~wrobinso/574_lec_myst.html (5112 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books Top 10s Mark Billingham: fictional detectives
		An ex-cop, Parker is haunted by the brutal murders of his wife and child and is called - often by the dead themselves - to avenge those who have been taken before their time.
		Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction.
		Robicheaux is a man of honour and courage; a bruised bayou knight.
	books.guardian.co.uk /top10s/top10/0,6109,1264615,00.html (741 words)

	82.01.03: History/Mystery: Regionalism and Ethnicity in the American Detective Novel
		Both are fictional prose narratives, relating certain events in a detailed, organized manner, but the novel’s greater length may tell us more about the characters, may contain both plot and subplots, may have different settings, may employ several flashbacks, points of view, and themes.
		Does the story of a Chicano detective in the Western city of Denver who solves the killing of a minority teenager have a commonality with the youth of other cities?
		If a Chinese detective is featured, he should not be considered for his detective skills alone, but his background as determined by his ethnicity should be important to all elements of the novel.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/1/82.01.03.x.html (6263 words)

	Latter-day Saints / Mormons in Mystery Novels
		Mormon Eyes - List of fictional Mormon detectives.
		Most Latter-day Saint/Mormon characters in science fiction and fantasy novels are devout, active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, even in stories set hundreds of years in the future or on other planets.
		The only criteria used in listing items here is that they are all "Mormon mysteries": works of mystery fiction focusing on Mormons.
	www.adherents.com /lit/mys_lds.html (3590 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives- Paperback
		For example, it is an attention to detail that is the hallmark of famous fictional detectives; the smallest item at a crime scene does not escape their notice.
		Although Lunde has stated that the murders of fiction bear no resemblance to the murders of reality (1976), a connection between fictional detective techniques and modern profiling methods may indeed exist.
		The second type of system assumes that violent crimes are committed by individuals with psychopathic personality makeup; according to the third classification type, a combination of social and psychological factors results in violent behavior.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0028740637/reviews (4560 words)

	Latter-day Saints / Mormons in Mystery Novels
		Mormon Eyes - List of fictional Mormon detectives.
		Most Latter-day Saint/Mormon characters in science fiction and fantasy novels are devout, active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, even in stories set hundreds of years in the future or on other planets.
		The only criteria used in listing items here is that they are all "Mormon mysteries": works of mystery fiction focusing on Mormons.
	www.adherents.com /lit/mys_lds.html (3590 words)

	TV page of ULTIMATE MYSTERY/DETECTIVE WEB GUIDE
		Detective's Wife 7 July 1950-29 Sep 1950 (CBS); 13 30-minute episodes; black and white; Adam Conway was a private detective on low-profile domestic cases, until thrust into the limelight when he solved a homicide.
		Wallace (1875-1932) was an immensely popular and prolific author of detective and thriller fiction, turning out 173 books and 17 plays in his lifetime, few of which are particularly good, but almost all of which sold quite well for him.
		Detective School 31 July 1979-24 Nov 1979 (ABC); 10 30-minute episodes; Nick Hannigan's night-school students, including an old man named Robert Redford (not the actor of the same name), applied their lessons outside the classroom, and almost always got in over their heads, needing Nick to wrap things up.
	magicdragon.com /UltimateMystery/tv.html (15345 words)

	The Philosophical Exercises of Janwillem van de Wetering
		and spent a year in coffe-shops working his way through a list of
		unusual detective teams in modern crime fiction: the trio of
		East, explores in fictional form ideas that had long been a concern
	www.avramdavidson.org /wetering.htm (3399 words)

	Listmania! A World of Fictional Detectives
		Even Stephen's List of Killer Thrillers and Mysteries : A list by even_stephen, Book Reader, Human Being
		Good Read Aloud Detective Fiction for ESL : A list by Dr. Bruce Leeds, Indiana U Professor
		UK - Apparently 10% of all fiction sold in Britain is from the pen of Ian Rankin.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/1S1CK12ENM4E1 (3399 words)

	Internet Book List :: Series Information: 87th Precinct
		The very first Ed McBain novel, Cop Hater (1956) introduced Steve Carella and his fellow detectives of the 87th Precinct, located in the fictional city of Isola, closely based on New York City.
		Through four decades of novels the detectives of the 87th, otherwise as three-dimensional as their readers, have hardly aged a day...because, as the author puts it, "If I hadn't done that, I'd now have a precinct of doddering old men."
		Genre: Fiction → Crime and Mystery → Detective Story and Detectives → Police Procedural
	www.iblist.com /series1216.htm (3399 words)

	95.01.01: Detective Fiction: Focus On Critical Thinking
		Students will be able to describe the five basic elements of detective fiction; define the related vocabulary; and name some of the great fictional detectives of the past and present.
		Naming all the detectives they can think of from literature, television, and motion pictures.
		Use the middle of the story to describe your detective and his/ her methods of obtaining information about the crime.
	www.cis.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1995/1/95.01.01.x.html (5685 words)

	Gang Busters
		The fifties saw "rumbles"—pitched street battles between the switchblade gangs, immortalized by the fictional Puerto Rican Sharks and Anglo Jets of West Side Story; in the sixties, the black Jolly Stompers held sway in Brownsville, Brooklyn; and the mostly Latino Savage Nomads prowled the South Bronx in the early seventies.
		When it picks up a rumor of a gang fight from school security or learns of an assault where a gang name was used, it saturates the area with uniformed officers and detectives.
		Some have estimated the number of Mexican gangs at 30, but both police and sociologists play down their significance, pointing out that the new gangs don't have nearly the numbers or the organization that the Latin Kings or even the Ñetas had five years ago.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/features/n_8118 (1295 words)

	List of fictional detective teams - TheBestLinks.com - Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, Detective fiction, Dr. Watson, ...
		Where two detectives work together, they are listed as A and B; where a single detective is regularly accompanied by a non-detecting sidekick or chronicler they are listed as A with B.
		This list includes pairs of characters who appear in a series of novels or short stories, not characters who are teamed only for a single story.
		This is a list of fictonal detective teams from popular detective fiction.
	www.thebestlinks.com /List_of_fictional_detective_teams.html (220 words)

	List of fictional left-handed characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Teen Detectives Nancy Drew, and Joe Hardy (of the Hardy Boys) are shown by some illustrators with their watch on their right wrist, which is more common among left-handed people.
		Barry Pepper the sniper in Saving Private Ryan is left handed, as can be seen in the closeup scenes of him shooting with his Springfield rifle on his left shoulder, and occasionally having difficulty operating the right handed bolt action.
		Additionally, Cervantes de Leon is questionable, as he uses his much larger and heavier sword in his left hand, while the sword in his right doubles as a gun, which covers both common ways of determining laterality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_left-handed_characters (1623 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		'''Brother Eadulf''' is a fictional character, the partner, friend, and later husband, of Peter Tremayne's detective Sister Fidelma.
		Category:Fictional Catholics Eadulf, Brother Category:Fictional clergy and religious Eadulf, Brother Category:Fictional detectives Eadulf, Brother {{lit-stub}}
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Brother Eadulf.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Brother_Eadulf.html (1623 words)

	List of famous pairs - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia
		Dalziel & Pascoe (fictional; colleagues; detectives) Creations of Reginald Hill
		Dante and Virgil (epic poets, fictional companions) Dante makes Virgil his guide through Hell (logical since Virgil described the Roman underworld in his Aeneid) in Inferno
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /l/li/list_of_famous_pairs.html (1623 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Genres: Mystery
		Mormons in Mystery Novels - Mormon and Utah-based fictional detectives, and the mystery novels in which they appear.
		Includes list of featured guests, event history and a registration form.
		The Early Whodunit - Traces the development of the early whodunit in both mystery and conventional literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Genres/Mystery (602 words)

	Learn more about List of famous pairs in the online encyclopedia.
		Dalziel & Pascoe (fictional; colleagues; detectives) Creations of Reginald Hill
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_famous_pairs.html (602 words)

	Learn more about List of famous pairs in the online encyclopedia.
		Dalziel & Pascoe (fictional; colleagues; detectives) Creations of Reginald Hill
		Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon (colleagues) (crossword puzzle authors)
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_famous_pairs.html (602 words)

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