The world's best-selling mystery writer, and often referred to as the “ Queen of Crime ”, Agatha Christie is considered a master of suspense, plotting, and characterisation.

Crime writer Emma Lathen's 1997 novel, " A Shark Out of Water ", revolves around the murder of a Polish official who was championing the improvement of the Kiel Canal.

Stone asked Weiser to read Crime and Punishment but the writer found that its story did not mix well with their own.

In the complete edition of Dostoyevsky's writings published in the Soviet Union, the editors reassembled and printed the notebooks that the writer kept while working on Crime and Punishment, in a sequence roughly corresponding to the various stages of composition.

E. H. Carr writes of Dostoevsky's character the young student Raskolnikov in the novel Crime and Punishment who decides to murder a ' vile and loathsome ' old woman money lender on the principle of transcending conventional morals: " the sequel reveals to us not the pangs of a stricken conscience ( which a less subtle writer would have given us ) but the tragic and fruitless struggle of a powerful intellect to maintain a conviction which is incompatible with the essential nature of man.

Other poetes: The King D. Dinis ( Denis of Portugal ) and the writer Eça de Queiroz who wrote his first realist novel, O Crime do Padre Amaro (" The Sin of Father Amaro "), which is set in the city and was first published in 1875.

Reginald Charles Hill FRSL ( 3 April 193612 January 2012 ) was an English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers ' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.

Crime writer Paul Kinnet came up with a storyline which starred the Thompsons and had them investigate the disappearance of their farmer friend, on whose farm they can be seen working at the end of the book in much the same way as they did on the Sirius.

In 2010, he began working as a writer and producer on the SyFy television series Haven, inspired by the Hard Case Crime novel The Colorado Kid by Stephen King.

From prog 897, Peter Hogan became the regular writer on the strip and in prog 898 he resurrected the Search Destroy Agency: an agent named Bullmoose revealed that the Galactic Crime Commission had cut ties with Earth ( who had pressed for the Agency to be closed and mutants purged ), moved to Ganymede, and recreated the agency as they needed mutants to " clean their dirty laundry for them ".

* It's a Crime, Documentary Showcase / Snowscapes series, 1957 ( writer )

Giordano and writer Denny O ' Neil created the Batman supporting character Leslie Thompkins in the story " There Is No Hope in Crime Alley " appearing in Detective Comics # 457 ( March 1976 ).

He returned to the American comic book industry in 2000 when he inked Scene of the Crime written by Ed Brubaker, a writer he would collaborate with a number of times over the following years.

* On the forums of Comic Book Resources, writer Dwayne McDuffie confirmed that the Superwoman ( voiced by Gina Torres ) portrayed in the film Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths is the Crime Syndicate of America's version of Mary Marvel, instead of Wonder Woman.

* 2002 Sybarite-Scene of the Crime, 4AD ( writer, vocalist )

Crime writer James Ellroy visited the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office in the 1990s to research Kupcinet's death.

My Dark Places: An L. A. Crime Memoir is a 1996 book, part investigative journalism and part memoir, by American crime-fiction writer James Ellroy.

His first cousin, once removed, is the acclaimed writer James Lee Burke, author of over thirty novels and short story collections and two-time winner of the Edgar Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation producer and writer Carol Mendelsohn considers Grissom the center of the show, and in the first seven years of the show he appeared in every episode, with the exception of " Hollywood Brass ", from season five, " Gum Drops " and " The Unusual Suspect " from season six, and " Sweet Jane " and " Redrum " from season seven.

“ After naming Lynds the Best Suspense writer of the 1970s ”, Baker and Nietzel continue, “ the Crime Literature Association of West Germany praised him as follows:

Drawing upon its program in criminal justice, the institute organized a series of televised debates on PBS-TV, Stopping Violent Crime: New Directions for Reduction and Prevention, hosted by Harvard law professor and Emmy Award-winner, Arthur R. Miller, and featuring former U. S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, Federal Judge David Sentelle, civil libertarian writer Wendy Kaminer, and others.

Dumb Witness is a detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on July 5 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Poirot Loses a Client

Taken at the Flood is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under the title of There is a Tide ... and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the November of the same year under Christie's original title.

Crime Wave is a 1999 collection of 11 short works of fiction and non-fiction, all originally published in GQ, by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy.

* Crime novelist Colin Dexter made a cameo in 2010.

Kuby, with Kunstler, represented Gregory Lee Johnson, a protester who burned a U. S. Flag at the 1984 Republican National Convention ; Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind cleric who headed the Egyptian-based militant group Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya, accused of planning and encouraging terrorist attacks against Americans ; Colin Ferguson, the man responsible for the 1993 LIRR shootings ( who chose to represent himself at trial ); Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, accused of plotting to murder Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam ; Glenn Harris, a New York public school teacher who absconded with a fifteen year-old girl for two months ; Darrell Cabey, a youth who was acquitted of assault on Bernard Goetz and successfully sued him for shooting Cabey ; Yu Kikumura, a member of the Japanese Red Army ; and associates of the Gambino Crime Family.

* Colin Wilson: The Psychic Detectives: The Story of Psychometry and Paranormal Crime Detection.

* Crime Library article on Colin Ireland

* Colin Wilson ; The Mammoth Book of True Crime ( 1988 ) ISBN 0-7867-0536-1

Wilson was a former chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime ( 1966 ), of the National Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention ( 1972 – 73 ) and a member of the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime ( 1981 ), the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board ( 1985 – 90 ), and the President's Council on Bioethics.

* Crime and Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime, James Q. Wilson, Richard J. Herrnstein, The Free Press 1985 ISBN 0-684-85266-7

‘ Thinking about Crime ’— 1975 — James Q. Wilson.

The Incredible Hulk and the Daredevil battle the Kingpin of Crime, although he was referred to only by his birth name, Wilson Fisk.

In the end, Ultraman was arrested by the Marines led by President Wilson, along with the rest of the remaining Crime Syndicate bosses, Power Ring and Superwoman.

Shortly thereafter at a dance club which employed Mary Jane Watson, Captain Stacy was put under a hypnotic trance through a rigged camera operated by Mary Jane who took photos of him unaware that her actions were aiding the Kingpin of Crime, Wilson Fisk.

During his stay with the Justice League on the Crime Syndicate's parallel Earth, J ' onn J ' onnz safeguarded First Daughter Rose Wilson.

This short novel by cartoonist Gahan Wilson pits the detectives Enoch Bone and John Weston against the Professor, a British Napoleon of Crime ; the Mandarin, a Chinese mastermind, and Spectrobert, a French rogue.

She is the daughter of Slade Wilson, who is the American President on the parallel earth of the Crime Syndicate and uses her notoriety to publicly denounce the Syndicate and her father's policy of appeasement ( it is suggested that Ultraman personally killed Rose's mother ).

* Wilson, Colin-The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Crime, Carroll & Graf 2002, ISBN 0-7867-0922-7, p. 58

* Crime Library: The Axeman of New Orleans

Seen from a practical point of view, one could argue that a crime novel is simply a novel that can be found in a bookshop on the shelf or shelves labelled " Crime ".

The Crime and Investigation channel's ' Fred Dinenage Murder Casebook ', put forward the case that the killer could have been Harold Jones, a convicted murderer from Wales.

Crime statistics and other data ( e. g. health and education ) that could be deemed to assess the effectiveness of government policies often attract media scepticism.

Because the subsequent arrest was under an alias, Ritter's supporters argued that the information could only have been obtained by accessing the National Crime Information Center ( NCIC ) database, which access is restricted by federal law.

This makes Junior, Mikey, and all other members of Junior's crew who were informed extremely angry and paranoid, for they fear Melfi could be potentially used as a witness to testify in court against the activities of the DiMeo Crime Family.

Using the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, approved by the United Nations in 1948 and ratified by the United States in 1988, the CoC has established itself as a leading non-partisan commenter on the Darfur Genocide, as well as on the war-torn region of Chechnya in Russia, a zone that the CoC believes could produce genocidal atrocities.

The show featured segments such as " The Corporate Challenge ," in which CEOs are challenged to prove they can use the products their companies create ; the storming of the supposedly " private " beach in Greenwich, Connecticut ; hiring ex-KGB officer Yuri Shvets to conduct investigations ; an experiment to see if hiring a lobbyist for $ 5, 000 could get the Congress to declare a " TV Nation Day " ( it did ); and " Crackers the Corporate Crime Fighting Chicken.

Within a week of her murder, it enacted the Proceeds of Crime Act 1996 and the Criminal Assets Bureau Act 1996, so that assets purchased with money obtained through crime could be seized by the government.

In their first appearance, the Crime Syndicate, bored with the ease with which they were able to commit crimes on their Earth ( and with no one to truly challenge them ), discovered the existence of Earth-One and Earth-Two after Ultraman got " Ultra-Vision " from exposure to a large chunk of kryptonite and found he could peer between Worlds.

It is revealed that the Syndicate members were working with Doctor Impossible in order to create a machine that could resurrect the dead, hoping that they could revive Luthor and force him to undo the damage he had dealt to the Crime Syndicate's world.

Crime was determined not as the infraction of law, but as any action which could threaten the Soviet state.

One was that an enemy who had been knocked down could be subjected to further abuse ; this feature also appeared in the first Crime Fighters a well as Konami's X-Men.

The marketing, sale, transfer, or possession in a public place of a ballistic knife could be construed to be illegal under the Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959, the Knives Act 1997, the Criminal Justice Act 1988, and the Prevention of Crime Act 1953.

Angelo Bruno, the don of the Philadelphia crime family, discouraged drug dealing in South Philadelphia, but could not prevent deals being made by the New York mafia families such as the Gambino Crime Family, which were doing business with the growing black organized crime that became the Black Mafia until black New York drug lord Frank Mathews became their supplier.

A key feature of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 was that resident foreigners suspected of terrorism could be interned without trial, if they could not be deported to another country without breaching British human rights legislation ( for example, if they might be subject to torture or the death penalty in their native country ).

The peak era for these was the era from roughly 1959 until 1986, when, due to the Meese Commission ( a contribution by Park Dietz ), and the end of a few of the publishers of Detective ( or " True Crime ") magazines, the main era of the bondage cover ended, though there were a few issues of Detective Dragnet in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and a brief revival from about 1994 until 2000, though even then few and far between ( unlike the late 1960s, when at least 2 such covers could be seen monthly.

Proceeds of Crime Act could refer to:

The motto of the series could be described as " Crime without Sex ", as women arise as characters only once in a while.