Mr. Mercedes is a novel by Stephen King about a retired detective who receives a mysterious letter from a unknown source, and eventually tracks down the main culprit responsible for the Mercedes killings. The story begins by showing many unemployed people waiting for a job fair to open, when a Mercedes car runs over civilians, killing eight and injuring many others. The killer escapes with no traces of their identity. We then are introduced to Bill Hodges, Bill is a retired cop who receives a letter from the person who did the Mercedes killings, they call themselves Mr. Mercedes. Mr. Mercedes purpose of sending the letter is to trick Hodges into committing suicide, however; it doesn’t work, it instead makes Hodges determined to bring the culprit to justice.. Hodges investigation involves him reviewing past cases and searching through the letter to find anything about Mr. Mercedes. Hodges also gets help from his computer savvy friend Jerome. Hodges aswell goes back to old people he interviewed related to the …show more content…
Mercedes identity, Hodges tells that he thinks Mr. Mercedes is just a fake. Mr. Mercedes is offended and replies back by asking how he knows about the evidence the police did not share to the public and also calls Hodges a retard. Hodges asks his friend Jerome to trace the location of Mr. Mercedes messages. While this is happening, Mr. Mercedes plans to kill Jerome's dog with a poisoned hamburger to prove that he is the Mercedes killer. Unfortunately, his plan backfires and his mother eats the burger instead and dies. Consequently, Mr. Mercedes, plans to carry a suicide bomb in a stadium full of young girls. Hodges and his team uncover that Mr. Mercedes works at an electronics store, and are also able to see pictures of the people who work there. Jerome is able to recognize one of them and finds out Mr. Mercedes is actually Brady Hartsfield, because he also works as an ice-cream man. In fact Brady was stalking Hodges from his ice-cream
John Feinstein writes a lot of books like this one. They all begin with susan Carol and stevie going to a big sporting event. Then they find something interesting. In this case Stevie discovered a man in his late 30s who had two 14 year old kids who just made it to pro level baseball. Stevie got an interview with the man and his two kids. Stevie accidentally asked a question about Norbert Doyles (the pro) wife. She supposedly died in a car accident caused by a drink driver. Later in the book, Susan Carol and Stevie find themselves asking an important question. who was the drink driver? Susan carol and stevie have to go on a hunt to find out. Once they find Doyle he spills. He says that he was an alcoholic and he and his wife were drinking out at a resturaunt. He drove home and got pulled over by a friend. The friend said he wouldn’t send Doyle to...
On 1997 four men were convicted of the rape and murder of Michelle Basko. The four men were Joe Dick, Daniel Williams, Eric Wilson, and Derek Tice. Detective Robert Ford believed that the four U.S. navy men were all guilty of the crime. One of the victim’s friend claimed that Daniel Williams, was Michelle Basko’s murderer. Based on the information provided by Basko’s friend, Ford suspected that William was guilty. With that, the series of harsh interrogations led by detective Robert Ford began. Detective Ford began his interrogatories with a label that Williams is the suspect. The psychological abuse he used, led Williams to make a false confession. After closing the case, the DNA results did not match the one in the crime scene. Instead of releasing Williams, it was believed that Joe
In 1776, David McCullough gives a vivid portrayal of the Continental Army from October 1775 through January 1777, with sharp focus on the leadership of America’s greatest hero, George Washington. McCullough’s thesis is that had not the right man (George Washington) been leading the Continental Army in 1776, the American Revolution would have resulted in a vastly different outcome. He supports his argument with a critical analysis of Washington’s leadership during the period from the Siege of Boston, through the disastrous defense of New York City, the desperate yet, well ordered retreat through New Jersey against overwhelming odds, and concludes with the inspiring victories of Trenton and Princeton. By keeping his army intact and persevering through 1776, Washington demonstrated to the British Army that the Continental Army was not simply a gang of rabble, but a viable fighting force. Additionally, Mr. McCullough supports his premise that the key to the survival of the American Revolution was not in the defense of Boston, New York City, or any other vital terrain, but rather the survival of the Continental Army itself. A masterful piece of history, 1776 is not a dry retelling of the Revolutionary War, but a compelling character study of George Washington, as well as his key lieutenants, and his British adversaries, the most powerful Army in the 18th Century world. When I read this book, I went from a casual understanding of the hero George Washington to a more specific understanding of why Washington was quite literally the exact right man at the exact right place and time to enable the birth of the United States.
One July afternoon in 1931 on a cloudy and cool afternoon a police officer walks in the local areas detective office. The officer sets a dirty folder with a big brown splotch on it, which seems to be a coffee stain. Inside the stained folder contains 2 printed pages of check copies. The detective puts on a bewildered face and wonders what he is supposed to accomplish with the unsolvable papers. Little does the detective know he has a long road ahead of him on discovering the unsolved mystery of Lawrence Exeter Jr.
The catalyst of the novel is a traumatic car accident causing two instant deaths and one paralysation. However, the star of the story isn’t the driver Daniel,
On Friday April 24th J.P. Walker, Preacher Lee, Crip Reyer and L.C. Davis got into Reyer’s Oldsmobile and they took off on a mission to kill Mark Charles Parker. (3 other cars of men followed) They went to the courthouse/jail in Poplarville and they could not get in. So they went to Jewel Alford’s House (The jail keeper) to get the keys to the Jail. Alford went with the four men to the courthouse. When he got there he went in and down the hall to Sheriff Moody’s office and got the keys to the jail. He opened the door to the jail and Lee, Reyer, Davis, Walker followed Alford into the jail. Alford then opened Parkers cell and Lee and Davis pulled Parker out of the jail and courthouse to the Reyer's Oldsmobile. Alford then left and the men got into the car.
The first close-to-death experience the narrator and his posse have involves a case of mistaken identity. The group wrongly identifies a lone car as that belonging to a mutual friend and flash their headlights in a
The solving of the murders would look good for the precinct and as an added incentive Chris would get a raise. In hindsight, there is a possible allusion to the plot point in Glengarry where Moss conspires to steal the leads from the office (or at least get someone to do it). I initially based the form of my play on the way that the text book handles the format.
He continuously put himself in the line of attack even though many situations were dangerous and could have been incriminating. In the beginning he shows up at Geiger’s bookstore to directly spy on Geiger himself. Next he follows the truck straight to Brody’s apartment and even talks to the man unloading the books. Marlowe makes a second trip back to the bookstore, talking to Agnes in the process, and then shows up to Brody’s house only to end up chasing after the boy who shot Brody. Although he is ultimately shunned by the police for involving himself individually into certain matters, he learns immersing himself directly works. John Cawelti offers the description that “the hard-boiled detective sets out to investigate a crime but invariably finds that he must go beyond the solution to some kind of personal choice or action.” Even in the end of the novel when he ultimately finds himself inching closer to his murder by Canino, he finds trust in one last character, Mona, and manages to escape free. When he returns back to the Sternwood home, he is finally able to piece together that Carmen had killed Rusty Reagan because he rejected her, information he only would have known from being on the
Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, written by Paul Schrader, both tell the same story about a man who is lonely and blames the world around him for his loneliness. The characters of Underground Man and Travis Bickle mirror each other; they both live in the underground, narrating their respective stories, experiencing aches and maladies which they leave unchecked, seeing the city they live in as a modern-day hell filled with the fake and corrupt. However, time and again both Travis and the Underground Man contradict their own selves. While the underground character preaches his contempt for civilization—the ‘aboveground’—and the people within it, he constantly displays a deep-seeded longing to be a part of it. Both characters believe in a strong ideal that challenges that of the city’s, an ideal that is personified in the character of the prostitute. He constantly attempts to seek out revenge, but the concept of revenge, paired with the underground character’s actions and inertia, becomes problematic with the underground ideal. The underground character is steeped in contradiction, and how one interprets his actions, or his inactions, is what ultimately determines whether the he is, truly, an underground man.
hold an influential man in jail under the assumption that he committed murder, however as they wait for the marshal, who is not exp...
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“The ABC Murders” is about a detective by the name of Poirot who has to find clues on a killer who is killing people whose names are in alphabetical order. It started off with Alice Ascher from Andover. Then it went to Betty Barnard from Bexhill and then to Sir Carmichael Clarke from Churston. Each time the murderer committed a crime he would leave an ABC Train Map by the victim. The murderer was an experienced criminal who left no trace of his identity. He goes by the name of ABC. Before each murder ABC would send Poirot a letter saying the date and town the murder would happen. The relatives of the victims came together with Poirot to help try and get ahead of the criminal. In the ending Poirot reveals that the brother of Sir Carmichael Clarke, Franklin Clarke committed the crimes to draw away attention from him wanting to inherit his brothers treasures. He had to kill him so he couldn’t marry Thora Grey and not get the money. Franklin Clarke tried to frame the murders on Mr. Cust who is a travelling salesman.
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