True, it is no longer cricket for the butler to be the killer in mystery fiction, but we are dealing here with actual people in real life and not imaginary characters and situations.

Given this influence, it is unfortunate that many of the details of his life remain shrouded in mystery, perhaps forever ; even the only known picture of him, shown above, is heavily retouched, with a fake tie painted in by hand.

Eventually he spends ten years in a Chinese prison before being released and embarking on a solution to the mystery that has haunted him his entire life: the fate of his mother who disappeared at the beginning of WWII.

* direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life ;

John Lienhard, technology historian, says " Most of Gutenberg's early life is a mystery.

Much of Urban's life is shrouded in mystery, leading to many myths and misconceptions.

He lived in Athens as a vegetarian bachelor, prosperous and generous to his friends, until the end of his life, except for a voluntary one year exile, which was designed to lessen the pressure put on him by his political-philosophical activity, little appreciated by the Christian rulers ; he spent the exile traveling and being initiated into various mystery cults as befitted his universalist approach to religion, trying to become " a priest of the entire universe ", worshiping all forms of the One God.

* Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life ;

The early years of Yaroslav's life are shrouded in mystery.

Ravel is not known to have had any intimate relationships, and his personal life, and especially his sexuality, remain a mystery.

The amount of life lost in the actual procurement of slaves remains a mystery but may equal or exceed the amount actually enslaved.

Never performing again at Niagara, her personal life remains a mystery and the date and place of her death are unknown.

Her reticence and fear of strangers perpetuated the mystery and mystique that she projected both on screen and in real life.

After a few months life becomes very idyllic on the island, with Richard making friends with a few other members of the beach community: Keaty, a fellow Englishman hooked on his Game Boy ; Gregorio, a Spanish traveller part of his fishing detail ; Unhygienix, the Italian head chef with an intense obsession for bath soap ; Jesse and Cassie, two lovers who work in the gardening and carpentry detail, respectively ; Ella, who works second-in-command with Unhygenix in the cooking detail ; and finally, Jed-the enigmatic loner of the group whose sole separate detail is shrouded in mystery.

Then sprang up the wish, directed to the sacred mystery or great riddle of life.

The Ancient Egyptians envisaged the oceanic abyss of the Nun as surrounding a bubble in which the sphere of life is encapsulated, representing the deepest mystery of their cosmogony.

" One such poem is Flannan Isle, based on a real life mystery.

Charles is also a major character in Margaret Frazer's The Maiden's Tale, a historical mystery which gives a very sympathetic fictional account of a few weeks of his life in England in the autumn of 1439, shortly before his release in 1440.

After his retirement in 1844, he returned to Montreal, but the rest of his life is a mystery.

Rather than follow Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier's developing versions of " the ( Latin ) American marvelous real ," Uslar-Pietri's writings emphasize "... the mystery of human living amongst the reality of life.

The mystery of life and death and of suffering-and particulary of religion ... is something that Marxists do not want to consider.

McGregor and Lewis suggest that some of Vane's and Wimsey's observations about mystery in story versus real life — though in the context of a mystery story — reflect Sayers ' sense of fun and ability to laugh with her characters.

But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.

Even for present-day neuroscience, the mechanisms by which brain activity gives rise to consciousness and thought remain very challenging to understand: despite rapid scientific progress, much about how the brain works remains a mystery.

The term microevolution was first used by botanist Robert Greenleaf Leavitt in the journal Botanical Gazette in 1909, addressing what he called the " mystery " of how formlessness gives rise to form.

Baley then gives the solution to the mystery of who killed Jander.

The mystery of Seven Dials and of the secret society which met in that sinister district requires precisely such a broad treatment, but Mrs Christie gives to it that minute study which she employed so skilfully in her earlier books.

It gives no explanation for the young woman's disappearance, which gives the song a sense of mystery and allows the listener the freedom to interpret it in his or her own way.

In it, a recently divorced librarian is drawn into a mystery when a stranger hides a roll of film in a pack of cigarettes and gives it to her for safekeeping.

These include " Beat the House ," where listeners are challenged to guess the identity of the mystery guest who was a notable figure in recent Canadian political news who gives a series of clues, which has moved to the website.

" He further commented on Stoppard the dramatist, " I think it is time we began to appreciate Stoppard not for his intellectual legerdemain, but for what he is actually best at: exploring the mystery of existence, the anguish of the human heart and the strange fact that it is our apprehension of death that gives joy and intensity to life.

When asked in a video interview by TasteitTV about having to conform to society, Rainbow says: "... A lot of the inspirations and themes in the lyrics, and even in the imagery is sort of childhood, and you know that perspective of when you're younger ... you lose a bit of that sense of wonder and mystery, which is really inspiring and gives you a lot of energy when you're younger.

This mystery gives Life to that which is Dead, an unforgivable sin.

Even on the fictional level, however, the contradictions which give rise to the mystery story are not fully resolved.

Speculation on the subject has given rise to the " Princes in the Tower " mystery.

The 1920s also gave rise to one of the most popular mystery authors of all time, Agatha Christie, whose works include Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and the world's best-selling mystery And Then There Were None ( 1939 ).

The rise of mystery cults in the Archaic age led to the development of places such as Tartarus and Elysium.

The end of the 19th century saw the fall of spontaneous generation and the rise of the germ theory of disease, though the mechanism of inheritance remained a mystery.

Her life in England in the 1920s gave rise to Bring the Monkey ( 1933 ), a spoof ( but with dark undertones ) on the English country house mystery novel.

In 1956, in his regular New York Times Book Review column, mystery critic Anthony Boucher, noting the growing popularity of crime fiction in which the main emphasis was the realistic depiction of police work, suggested that such stories constituted a distinct sub-genre of the mystery, and, crediting the success of Dragnet for the rise of this new form, coined the phrase " police procedural " to describe it.

Chandragupta Maurya's rise to power is shrouded in mystery and controversy.

The later Principate saw the rise in popularity among the military of Eastern mystery cults, generally centred on one deity, and involving secret rituals divulged only to initiates.

This movement had elements of the bizarre and irrational, and included the rise of the Gothic novel which often centered on mystery and the psychology of its characters.

During Hellenism and the Roman empire period, " Eastern " ( Oriental ) religions exerted a considerable influence on " Western " religion, giving rise to Persian influenced traditions like Gnosticism and Mithraism, as well as Egyptian and " Chaldean " influence on mystery religions ( Orphism ), astrology and magic.

His rise to prominence and immediate removal from the side remains a mystery.

But the mystery buyer of the land does not look like it is Boro ' because chairman, John Downing promised that if Rangers stay in the Conference National the Stadiums seated capacity will rise to over 2500, with a 2000 seater stand being constructed in the Shed End.