Carolyn keene, the author of multiple mystery book series, wrote Nancy Drew The mystery at the ski jump. When Nancy learns that the Drews' housekeeper has been duped by an elegantly dressed woman into buying a stolen fur piece, the young detective starts a search for the clever swindler. To Nancy's astonishment, she discovers that the woman is using the name Nancy Drew. The dishonest acts of the impostor point the finger of suspicion at Nancy herself and result in her being questioned by the police. At the end she was able to find the gang of swindlers and solve this puzzling mystery. When Nancy learns that the Drews' housekeeper has been duped by an elegantly dressed woman into buying a stolen fur piece, the young detective starts a search
Madison Johns is USA Today bestselling author and writer of many novels that span different genres. The many different series that Madison Johns has written include: “Agnes Barton Senior Sleuths Mystery” series, “Agnes Barton/Kimberly Steele Cozy Mystery series, Agnes Barton Paranormal Mysteries, and the “Sweet Romance” series. Some of the series starring Agnes Barton are really a part of the main series, but Johns put them in their own series so that if readers wanted to sit those other installments out, they could.
The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the book
In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak the narrator is Death, who shows itself as sympathetic and sensitive towards the suffering of the world and the cruel human nature, through its eyes, we can get to know the heartbreaking story of Liesel Meminger an ordinary, but very lucky nine-year old German girl; living in the midst of World War II in Germany. In this book the author provides a different insight and observation about humanity during this time period from a German view and not an Allied perspective, as we are used to.
In the novel Missing Sarah by Maggie deVries she writes and illustrates a sad tribute to the memory of her sister, Sarah. The author Maggie deVries makes a clear connection between Sarah's adoption by her family and Sarah's incredibly sad life. Adoption of children from another background, heritage and race into white families sometimes doesn't go well, despite the best efforts of the family. Sarah deVries was one of at least 21 women who could only be identified by DNA found on a pig farm in Port Coquitlam, BC. The women were all sex workers or prostitutes who were killed, and the cause of their vanishing was not investigated promptly possibly because they were engaged in selling sex to survive. Even the choice of whether to refer to these women as 'prostitutes' or 'sex
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Have you ever wanted to meet the character who you loved so much in a book you’ve read? The character you spent so much time thinking about? Maybe a character who you like enough to learn more about their character arch or maybe even look up fan-art and fan-fiction? Maybe the character is so relatable you’ve even developed a crush on this character? There have been many people who do this. Which is why this story is so intriguing. In Allison Van Diepen’s The Vampire Stalker, the main character Amy is a regular high school girl who is obsessed with reading. Especially The Otherworld Series. A young adult novel in The Vampire Stalker which is just as popular to them as Twilight is to us.
the cover of this book there would be a mystery, a story of detectives, eye-
In Susan Cain’s book Quiet, The Power Of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, she writes about extroverts and introverts and their roles in our society. She gives real world stories of how introverted and extroverted individuals become successful. In Chapter one, “How Extroversion Became The Cultural Ideal”, Cain states how being an extrovert increased throughout the 20th century. For example, extroversion started showing up in schools, such as extracurricular activities, which favor kids who are extroverts. While writing this chapter, she did well adding emotional appeal through the story stories she told. Cain also did well using logical appeal, ethical appeal, stakeholders, and her values. Susan Cain explains to her audience that although introversion gained a negative stigma with people, anyone has the ability to achieve the same amount of success.
The Friday Everything Changed” written by Anne Hart describes how a simple question challenges the
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The actual invention of detective fiction did not occur until 1841 when Edgar Allen Poe wrote The Murders in the Rue Morgue. In this novel Poe introduced Auguste Dupin, who was the main character of the story. In Poe’s story the detective was very intelligent and he had superior reasoning skills. Poe’s story set the basic plot for detective stories of that time. A crime, usually murder, is committed; a detective investigates the crime; a number of suspects are considered; the guilty party is discovered and imprisoned, killed, or allowed to escape at the conclusion (Detective Fiction,” 1 Twentieth Century).
The play ‘night, Mother by Marsha Norman contains two characters who are both fairly important to the play and develop in significant ways. The most changed character throughout would be her mama, Thelma. Jessie has epilepsy and is battling the decision of killing herself throughout the play. She decides to tell her mama the plan, so it does not come as a surprise and she is truly heartbroken by her decision. During the play, Norman presents the connection between the two and how they change individually.
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One of the being Nancy Drew who is described as a strawberry blond with sparkling blue eyes (citation). Nancy is the heart of the story and the amateur sleuth who solves the mystery of the brass bound trunk. The next character that plays an important role in the story is Nelda a girl from Johannesburg, South Africa. Nelda is on the ship to escape the scrutiny of being wrongly accused for stealing a diamond bracelet. Nelda is of great significance in this story because she was there when the man had stolen some of the jewels and gems from a jewelry shop in Johannesburg. Little to Nelda’s surprise, the man she had seen steal that day was aboard the same ocean liner with her, with the same bracelet she had been accused of stealing. The next character when plays a huge rold in the story is the assistant purser Rob Havelock, who helps Nancy and her friends hide the trunk in an unused room next door, after their room had been ransacked by unknown individuals. Rob helps Nancy by providing her access to places on the ship and with locating suspected individuals. Rob also helps Nancy carry the mysterious trunk down to the holding, where it was originally supposed to be, after all the stolen items had been extracted from it. There are also Nancy’s two friends that help her with her detective
Agatha Christie, author of the murder mystery And Then There Were None, used foreshadowing and both external and internal conflict to portray the theme of her novel that justice can be served for the crimes that go unpunished. Christie used these elements because she enjoyed mystery and she liked to keep her readers engaged while reading. Agatha Christie is still considered one of the best, if not, the best murder mystery writer today because she wrote the first murder mystery novel and she wrote many more after that that was well loved by people.