We have only to think of Lady Macbeth or the policeman-murderer in Thomas Burke's famous story, `` The Hands Of Mr. Ottermole '', to realize that hands often call up ideas of crime and punishment.

Although his name and history were taken from his early life with his adoptive Earth parents, everything about Clark was staged for the benefit of his alternate identity: as a reporter for the Daily Planet, he receives late-breaking news before the general public, has a plausible reason to be present at crime scenes, and need not strictly account for his whereabouts as long as he makes his story deadlines.

Although " Oedipus's enquiry is based on supernatural, pre-rational methods that are evident in most narratives of crime until the development of Enlightenment thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries " it has " all of the central characteristics and formal elements of the detective story, including a mystery sur-rounding a murder, a closed circle of suspects, and the gradual uncovering of a hidden past.

* the criminal is introduced at the very start of the story and his crime and reasons are carefully explained, thus constituting an inverted detective story rather than a " puzzle ";

The Danish crime story The Rector of Veilbye by Steen Steensen Blicher was written in 1829, and the Norwegian crime novel Mordet på Maskinbygger Rolfsen (" The Murder of Engine Maker Rolfsen ") by Maurits Hansen was published in 1839.

In an inverted detective story, the commission of the crime, and usually also the identity of the perpetrator, is shown or described at the beginning.

A notable film to have emerged during this period was Ryszard Bugajski's 1982 film Interrogation ( Przesluchanie ), which depicts the story of an unfortunate woman ( played by Krystyna Janda ) who is arrested and tortured by the secret police into confessing a crime she knows nothing about.

One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader.

" I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fields church in London for the last two years ," she told NME adding that she " loved detective stories " having been a fan of Sherlock Holmes and US crime author Mickey Spillane as a girl.

Introduced by Edgar Lustgarten, each episode featured a dramatised reconstruction of a " true crime " story.

* Aurora ( 2010 film ), a Romanian crime story

He introduced topical story lines about television, juvenile delinquency, graft, organized crime, and other developments in American life during the 1950s.

Another Nights tale with crime fiction elements was " The Hunchback's Tale " story cycle which, unlike " The Three Apples ", was more of a suspenseful comedy and courtroom drama rather than a murder mystery or detective fiction.

That same year, Hanks collaborated with director Spielberg again, starring opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit crime comedy Catch Me If You Can, based on the true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr.

Both the person accused of the crime and the accuser would give speeches based on their sides of the story.

In Neil Gaiman's early short story The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds, the Humpty Dumpty story is turned into a film noir-style hardboiled crime story, involving also Cock Robin, the Queen of Hearts, Little Bo Peep, Old Mother Hubbard and other characters from popular nursery rhymes.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again continues the story from the end of The Return of the Pink Panther, featuring the now-insane Dreyfus creating a crime syndicate and constructing a doomsday machine with the intention of using it to blackmail the world to kill Clouseau.

The player reprises the role of John Blade, and the story picks up after the conclusion of the main game, pitting the player against Gianni Manero, a notorious crime boss looking to take over Freeport city.

An important variation on the whodunit is the inverted detective story ( also referred to as a " howcatchem " or " howdunnit ") win which the guilty party and the crime are openly revealed to the reader / audience and the story follows the investigator's efforts to find out the truth while the criminal attempts to prevent it.

One of the mob's high-ranking assassins is the undercover cop Tony, who must team up with Tequila for their common pursuit of taking down Wong's crime syndicate.

Tequila Sunrise ( 1988 ) is an American crime thriller film written and directed by Robert Towne.

One reviewer was of the opinion that, " perhaps because the elements were so irresistible — Robert Towne directing Gibson, Russell and Pfeiffer in a California crime film — an aura of disappointment settled over Tequila Sunrise, no matter how engaging, and profitable, it turned out to be.

In a dystopian 1988, crime in the United States has increased 400 %, so the island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum security prison.

In Brazil, according to the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, racism and other forms of race-related hate speech are " imprescriptible crime ( s ) with no right to bail to its accused ".

Later in 1988, the group made their second film appearance in Tougher Than Leather, a would-be crime caper that was directed by Rick Rubin and featured special guest performances by the Beastie Boys and Slick Rick.

* In 2003, Welshman Jeffrey Gafoor was convicted of the 1988 murder of Lynette White, when crime scene evidence collected 12 years earlier was re-examined using STR techniques, resulting in a match with his nephew.

Gotti was nevertheless able to take control of the New Jersey DeCavalcante crime family in 1988.

The crime and decades-long legal aftermath inspired the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning.

Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime drama film loosely based on the FBI investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in the U. S. state of Mississippi in 1964.

In the August 1988 issue of Money magazine, Danbury topped the magazine's list of the best U. S. cities to live in, mostly due to low crime, good schools, and location.

In May 1988, Gravano and Robert Bisaccia, a New Jersey crime family soldier, murdered Francessco Oliverri for beating a Gambino family crew member to death.

In Israel, the 1988 Equal Employment Opportunity Law made it a crime for an employer to retaliate against an employee who had rejected sexual advances, but it wasn't until 1998 that the Israeli Sexual Harassment Law made such behavior illegal.

In September 1988, Jacques-André Kaeslin made a note about the connection of Shakarchi Trading AG with international crime.

O ' Connor later starred in the NBC / CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night from 1988 to 1995, where he played the role of southern Police Chief William ( Bill ) Gillespie.

As of 2007, no Brazilian politician has ever been convicted by the Supreme Federal Tribunal of any crime since parliamentary immunity was instituted in the 1988 constitution.

Likewise, while the Iraqi Criminal Code of 1969 or the apparent 1988 edition do not expressly prohibit homosexual relations between consenting adults in private ( a right under a United Nations Human Rights Commission ruling in 1994 ), scattered reports seem to suggest that homosexuality is still being treated as a crime, possible a capital crime under a 2001 amendment that technically should not exist.

Specifically in November 1988, a shortfall of US $ 132 million was discovered in the Bank of Crete some months after bank chairman Koskotas, a Greek-American millionaire entrepreneur under investigation for large-scale financial crime, had fled the country.

Clue Master Detective or Super Cluedo is a crime fiction board game originally published in 1988 based on the original Cluedo board game ( Clue in North America ).

The technique continues to be used in modern crime thrillers such as Grievous Bodily Harm ( 1988 ), The Usual Suspects ( 1995 ), and Kill Bill Volume 2 ( 2004 ).

The Act passed in 1988 making possession and distribution of anabolic steroids a federal crime.

A number of international instruments, starting with the 1988 Vienna Convention, have strongly suggested the enactment of legal provisions enabling confiscation of proceeds of crime.

He starred as Jerry Lewis's character's son in the episode " Garment District Arc " of the crime show Wiseguy ( 1988 ).

Other notable early practitioners included David Burnham of The New York Times, who in 1972 used a computer to expose discrepancies in crime rates reported by the police ; Elliot Jaspin of The Providence Journal, who in 1986 matched databases to expose school bus drivers with bad driving histories and criminal records ; and Bill Dedman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who received the Pulitzer Prize for his 1988 investigation, The Color of Money, which dealt with mortgage lending discrimination and redlining in middle-income black neighborhoods.

Steve Bogira's 1988 article " A Fire in the Family " used an apartment-building fire as the starting point for a 15, 000-word chronicle of life among the underclass, following three generations of a west-side family and touching on urban issues such as addiction, discrimination, crime, and teen pregnancy.