Mystery Book Reviews Samples For Students

Book Report on “The Maltese Falcon”

Book Report on “The Maltese Falcon” is a crime novel book that was written first in 1930 by the author Dashiell Hammet. The book belongs to the genre of crime fiction or mystery novel. At the time this was called “hard boiled” crime fiction and it was a very popular type of book. The story centers around the character Sam Spade, who is the protagonist of the book. Sam Spade along with another detective, Miles Archer, is hired by to follow a man named Floyd Thursdby. At first it is just a case of Thursby running off with the man who ...

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Dumbarton Drive, by Bob Rager deserves a reading by all suspense and thriller loyalists. The book meets all the benchmarks set by bestselling thriller novels and also makes for an adrenalin rushing read. The author progresses slowly yet steadily in the novel and has taken extreme care not to miss the intricacies of penning down a mystery novel. The end result is a fast-paced yet fun-filled thriller novel that will force your heart to skip a beat.
In the novel, Dumbarton Drive, the author has narrated the tale of a man who finds himself in a haunted house at the Dumbarton Drive in Washington ...

Mystery and romance: The Mystery of Love (39)

History: The mystery of Mary (39)
Novel: The Mystery of the White Lions (40)
Guide: The Mystery Shopper’s Manual (37)
Graphic Novel: The case of the mystery meat loaf (39)
Mystery: The Icon of Mystery and Crime Detection (32)
Play: Shakespeare in Shorthand (36)
Short stories, satire and poetry: Tales of Mystery and Imagination (33)
Religion, Spirituality & New Age: The Christian Mystery (39)
Horror: Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon (40)
Art: If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery (37)
Travel: The Mystery of the Easter Island (38)
Books Descriptors
The Mystery of Love
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There can be no denial of the fact that the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by the famous author, Mark Haddon, is one of the best literary works to be adapted in the cinematic form of expression. Indeed, the story in context has enormous scope of quintessential and aesthetic portrayal of the events, emotions, frictions, and mystery. The young teenager of the narrative, Christopher, is the hero of this story in context. The way he is portrayed in the literary narrative truly impresses the readers, and it provides ample scope for catapulting the affective ...

The novel ‘ABC Murder’ reflects around a serial killer, ABC, who kills individuals alphabetically. The killer, with an unknown identity, sends provoking letters to Poirot, who is identified to be a detective. However, ABC covers his act with Cust, whom he takes advantage of because of mental disability. He offers Cust a job on behalf of a stocking company and arranges for his presence at each murder scene. ABC, who privately kills individuals in different cities, is however identified to be Franklin Clarke (Christie, 2010). On the other hand, The Big Sleep features Marlowe, a detective, who is hired ...

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Sexual dependence, which is additionally called sexual reliance, hyper-sexuality, nymphomania (females), impulsive sexual conduct and sexual compulsivity, alludes to the wonder in which individuals can't deal with their sexual conduct. The unique is fixated on sexual considerations - contemplations that meddle with their capability to work legitimately, have connections, and go about their everyday exercises. Numerous scientists say that a sexual habit is a manifestation of obsessive enthusiastic conduct. An individual with sexual enslavement fixated on sex or has a strangely powerful sex drive. Their lives are overwhelmed with sex and the possibility of sex; to such an extent that different exercises ...

The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson, is a narrative that revealed how diseases spread, how cities developed and how people viewed science in 1854. Integrative thinking and the ability to make connections enabled Dr. John Snow to trace the pattern of the disease to its origin. John’s ability to make a connection between the epidemic and the water the people consumed was marvelous. It enabled him to save people’s lives. It is, therefore, important to have an open mind and think in a connective manner.
This is a narrative that took place in 1854 during summer. London, ...

Key Terms and Distinctions

Science is knowledge according to the causes. This implies that just knowledge about the facts cannot be considered as science. It is important to understand them, to know why something is true and to interpret this knowledge. Science requires development of the mind, it is caused by strengthening the intellect and working on it.
Practical science is compared to the theoretical science. The latter one is based on searching for the truth for the sake of itself. Theoretical science is aimed to explain the fact or event not its causes. On the contrary, practical science is designed to ...

The novel “Daughter of Time” written by Josephine Tey and published by ‘Simon and Schuster’ is one of the most interesting literary works well-disguised as a novel. The classic, published in the year 1951 for the first time dates back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and gives an account of Richard III . The story has a fascinating plot with likeable characters. The most interesting part of the book is the way Tey presents history in the form of a mystery. She portrays history as a science, which involves a constant effort to analyze and learn from the truth rather a mere recitation of names, ...

Our Mutual Friend is a fiction book written by Charles Dickens. It is one of the most known challenging and fictitious works by Charles Dickens. The main character in the book is John Harmon the son of a tycoon who is to marry a certain lady named Bella Wilfer in order to get his inheritance from the father. He refuses his family’s conditions and leaves. When John Harmon comes back, he comes back with a different identity, John Rokesmith and works in a company close to his fathers. When he was away, he drowned and was supposedly reported dead and so no one ...

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The Monkey’s Raincoat (1987) by Robert Crais is a ground-breaking mystery novel with an authentic plot. The title of the book is inspired by a haiku from the poetry of Matsuo Bashu, a Japanese samurai-turned-poet. Crais quotes the haiku in the novel’s beginning stating, “Winter downpour; Even the monkey needs a raincoat” (as qt. in Crais). Wintry weather is usually accompanied by heavy shower in the form of rainstorm storm. As far as Japanese haiku poetry is concerned, the term ‘monkey’ is used for representing a man or a man’s soul. It does ...

Many stories behind the history of the blacks and their contribution to modern developments have never been told. The slave trade period was one of the worst moments of history and especially to the black generation. Apart from the psychological and physical they were made to face, being denied basic needs of life and being looked down, there was still more to their predicament that has remained underground. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a book that reveals to us how the black race was looked down on and taken advantage of when in the real sense, the contribution ...

Auditor has much to learn from the article "What the Dog Saw". It gives inspiration and advice that is essential of practiced while auditing. It has provided with clues on how to undertake the task in an appropriate and efficient considering the situation and the environment. Malcolm Gladwell pointed some of the activities of which related much to the situations concerning to the business field. The cultural trends of the Americans during 1950s it was a taboo of a woman applying dye on their hair. This is connected with how companies have tied back their original message of which is tampered ...

The book, “the ocean at the end of the lane," by Neil Gaiman, starts with a prologue that acts as a window to the idea in it. The prologue begins with the narrator at a funeral, dressed for the occasion. He states that he has done his part through the speech that he was to give. The writer wants to escape the tense situation in meeting all the people that he had known when he lived in his hometown. Page nine discloses the narrator’s discomfort at being asked personal questions when his life was so unorthodox. He was divorced, practiced pure ...

Book Report

Gone Girl is a modern book written by American writer Gillian Flynn. The book was published in June 2012 by Crown Publishing Group. Gone Girl became one of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling books and soon hit the best seller list in New York Times. The book is a thrilling novel about a marriage gone terribly wrong which is filled with psychological suspense and raw intensity, with the principal suspense coming from the uncertainty about the major character, Nick, and whether he murdered his wife, Amy. In this book, Flynn tried to explore the psychology and dynamics of a lasting relationship. She admits to ...

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Book review of The Woods
“The Woods” is a thriller penned by Harlan Coben and was first published in the year 2007. Coben is known for his detective thrillers and out of the 20 books published by him so far, 10 feature the famous character of Myron Boitar. Harlan is based out of USA and some of his bestsellers include “Gone for Good” and “Tell No One”.
The story of “The Woods” revolves around an incident which took place in a summer camp, in which four teenagers (Doug Billingham, Gil Perez, Camille Copeland and Margot Green) venture into the ...

A Christian View of Sexuality Within Marriage

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The Gift of Sex, by Clifford and Joyce Penner, is a comprehensive, Christian educational guide for married couples about sexuality. Divided into a preface and five sections, the book uses Scripture and the authors’ expertise in marriage therapy to offer important information to couples concerning sexuality so that readers may overcome problems or enhance a relationship that is already good. The book educates married couples on Bible-based considerations about sex, physical aspects of sex, and unifying the religions and physical aspects of sex in order to have a more fulfilling relationship with each other. It answers questions, offers exercises, uses anecdotes ...

‘Lord of the flies’ is a much admired novel, written by William Golding. William Golding is a well known novelist who was awarded noble prize and is recipient of several other awards for his contribution in the literature. Goldwin was ranked third among 50 greatest English novelists. This paper intends to discuss William Goldwin’s best novel, ‘Lord of the Flies’ along with discussing other related aspects of the novel.
‘Lord of the flies’ is a tale of a group of boys who were left high and dry as their pilotless plane lands on an island during a war. Boys were without any ...

In the introduction to Hunter's Shakespeare and the Comedy of Forgiveness, the author announces his intention to combat oversimplifications that have arisen over the past few decades with regards to the scholarship of Shakespeare, wherein the attitude of Shakespeare itself at the time of his writing would actually reflect the politics and intent of the work itself (e.g. King Lear having a sad ending indicating Shakespeare being despondent at the time of its composition). "This study...will be an attempt to investigate one feature - the denouement in forgiveness - which is common to five of the later comedies" (Hunter 2). ...