It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

He catches criminals not merely because he is paid to do so ( frequently he does not receive a fee at all ), but because he enjoys his work, because he firmly believes that murder must be punished.

Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

But whether the murder of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered.

The real question was how one passed from anti-Semitism of this sort to murder, and the answer to this question is not to be found in anti-Semitism itself.

`` Of course, it could be because this is his first murder case.

But slowly they take over as Alain Delon ( Life, Sept. 15 ), playing a sometimes appealing but always criminal boy, casually tells a rich and foot-loose American that he is going to murder him, then does it even while the American is trying to puzzle out how Delon expects to profit from the act.

Usually, the detective either stumbles across the murder or is called upon by an old acquaintance, who is somehow involved.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko's 2006 murder by radiation poisoning is thought to have been carried out with polonium-210, an alpha emitter.

This reign is one which faces opposition from several prophets of Yahweh throughout as well as various consequences because of his marriage to Jezebel, because of his worship of Baal, disobedience to prophetic warnings and words, and also because of the murder of Naboth.

; Piracy with violence: Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 provides that it is an offence, amongst other things, for a person, with intent to commit or at the time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, to assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel.

* 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.

In the 1960 film David and Goliath, Abner ( Massimo Serato ) tries to murder David ( Ivica Pajer ) when he returns in triumph after killing Goliath ; however, Abner is slain by King Saul ( Orson Welles ).

In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".

The murder of Alexander is assigned by Diodorus to 357 / 356 BC.

* 1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

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.

In the book, Chablis and her larger-than-life adventures provided a counterbalance to the darker narrative of murder that was central to the book.

The historical whodunnit is a sub-genre of historical fiction which bears elements of the classical mystery novel, in which the central plot involves a crime ( almost always a murder ) and the setting has some historical significance.

His partiallity was tested when an illegal American alien, Edward Bale, formed an American mob attempted to murder Vallejo's brother Salvador in Sonoma's central plaza after losing to him in a duel.

The Holy Child of La Guardia () ( died 1491 ) was the purported victim of a ritual murder by the Jews in the town of La Guardia in the central Spanish province of Toledo ( Castile – La Mancha ).

* Hercule Poirot – retired detective who investigates the central murder

It revolves around the investigation into the murder of Teresa Banks ( Pamela Gidley ) and the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer ( Sheryl Lee ), a popular high school student in the fictional Washington town of Twin Peaks, of which these two connected murders were the central mysteries of the television series.

The novel's central character is Étienne Lantier, previously seen in L ' Assommoir ( 1877 ), and originally to have been the central character in Zola's " murder on the trains " thriller La Bête humaine ( 1890 ) before the overwhelmingly positive reaction to Germinal persuaded him otherwise.

It was the progenitor of the long-running television series Dixon of Dock Green ( even though Dixon's murder is the central plot of the original film ).

In March, there was a Communist rising in central Germany, accompanied by violence, murder, and pillage.

The Stephen Downing case involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in central England.

Hypergraphia was one of the central issues in the 1999 trial of Alvin Ridley for the imprisonment and murder of his wife Virginia Ridley.

Also among this group, the issue of racism as motive for murder is central to Crossfire ( 1947 ), Bad Day at Black Rock ( 1954 ), and A Soldier's Story ( 1984 ).

Ralph Dibny played a central role in the events of Identity Crisis, with the main arc of the series revolving around the DC Universe's response to the murder of Sue Dibny.

Patrick Malahide plays three central characters-the contemporary Finney, who Marlow thinks is having an affair with his ex-wife Nicola, played by Janet Suzman ; the imaginary Binney, a central character in the murder plot ; and Raymond, a friend of Marlow's father who has an affair with his mother ( Alison Steadman ).

Among other things, Walker, the plaintiff, argued that: " both the book and the film begin with the murder of a black and a white policeman with a handgun at close range ; both depict cockfights, drunks, stripped cars, prostitutes and rats ; both feature as central characters third-or fourth-generation Irish policemen who live in Queens and frequently drink ; both show disgruntled, demoralized police officers and unsuccessful foot chases of fleeing criminals.

* In the manga Detective Conan ( v. 9, no. 4-6 ; anime episodes 27 & 28 ), a statue of Benkei and his standing death are one of the central clues for solving a murder case.

Mexican Jacobins, supported by Calles's central government, went beyond mere anticlericalism and engaged in secular antireligious campaigns to eradicate what they called " superstition " and " fanaticism ", including desecration of religious objects, persecution, and murder, of the clergy and anticlerical legislation.

Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset ( 31 May 1590 – 23 August 1632 ), born Frances Howard, was an English noblewoman who was the central figure in a famous scandal and murder during the reign of King James I.

Before his murder, Aldo Moro, a central figure in the Christian Democrat Party, several times Prime minister, was trying to include the Communist Party, headed by Enrico Berlinguer, in the parliamentary majority, an operation called the historic compromise.

Other characters include Hilary Carson ( Michael Rennie ) who Maxwell Fleury thinks is having an affair with his wife ; Colonel Whittingham ( John Williams ), the head of police, who investigates the murder of Hilary Carson central to the plot ; a journalist named Bradshaw ( Hartley Power ); and finally Julian Fleury ( Basil Sydney ) and his wife ( Diana Wynyard ) who are both hiding secrets from their children.

Gawan takes over as the central figure of Books VII-VIII as he tries to clear his name of a false charge of murder.