On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

*" The Strange Case of the Demon Barber " ( 8 January 1946 ), an adaptation of the Sweeney Todd story featured in an episode of the radio drama The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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.

Umney's Last Case is a short story written by Stephen King, first published in King's collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes ( 1993 ).

* Anthony Berkeley's The Poisoned Chocolates Case ( 1929 ) features six different solutions to the murder ( and is an expansion of Berkeley's classic short story, " The Avenging Chance ")

The first story in the series is " Mickey and the Sleuth: The Case of the Wax Dummy ".

Finger then used " Partners of Peril "— a Shadow pulp written by Theodore Tinsley — as the basis for Batman's debut story, " The Case of the Chemical Syndicate.

A similar series, Kindaichi Case Files, features a locked room mystery in almost every story.

* " The Pencil " ( AKA " Marlowe Takes On the Syndicate ", " Wrong Pigeon ", and " Philip Marlowe's Last Case ") ( 1959 ), ( short story ): Chandler's last completed work about Marlowe, his first Marlowe short story in more than twenty years, and the first short story originally written about Marlowe.

The book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle and the bumbling crime writer Ariadne Oliver, making her first appearance in a Poirot novel ( she previously had a role in the Parker Pyne short story The Case of the Discontented Soldier ).

Daphne du Maurier, wife of his former Sandhurst adjutant " Boy " Browning, even wrote a story about this side of his life-A Border-Line Case.

The first may have been Frank Holby's short, short story, The Strange Case of the Missing Hero in the July 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, which featured Sebastian Lelong, editor of the Encyclopedia.

* " Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking ", a 2004 BBC TV film directed by Simon Cellan Jones from an original story by Alan Cubitt, features the sleuth, played by Rupert Everett, tracking down a killer of aristocratic young women.

The breakdown of this identification of two points into one is the premise of H. G. Wells story " The Remarkable Case of Davidson ’ s Eyes " ( 1895 ).

* James Duffy, a character in the short story " A Painful Case " ( part of the book Dubliners ) by James Joyce

Hitchcock described The Paradine Case as "... a love story embedded in the emotional quicksand of a murder trial ".

In 1950 Gardner published a short story " The Case of the Suspect Sweethearts " under the pseudonym Della Street.

The true first appearance of Mrs Oliver was a brief appearance in the short story The Case of the Discontented Soldier which was first published, along with four other stories in the August 1932 issue of the U. S. version of Cosmopolitan magazine ( issue number 554 ) under the sub-heading of Are You Happy?

In an adaptation of the Parker Pyne story The Case of the Discontented Soldier, she was portrayed by Lally Bowers.

* British writer Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse series of books, wrote a Sherlock Holmes short story " A Case of Mis-Identity ", part of a collection of short stories published under the title " Morse's Greatest Mystery ", in which Watson's practical knowledge of the circumstances of a case outwits the armchair intellectual logic of both Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.

* The Mysterious Mr Campion ( 1963 )-The Case of the Late Pig, Dancers in Mourning and The Tiger in the Smoke ; also a short story On Christmas Day in the Morning and a preface by the author.

It was based on the true story of Chris Costner Sizemore, also known as Eve White, a woman who suffered from Dissociative Identity Disorder ( DID ) formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

In a 1964 short fantasy story " A case of Identity " by Randall Garrett, one of the characters, a homicidal psychopath by nature, is mentally restrained by a spell called geas " which forces him to limit his activities to those which are not dangerous to his fellow man ".

The Superboy-Prime character was the inspiration for Kurt Busiek's miniseries Superman: Secret Identity, which begins as a story about a teenage boy, named Clark Kent after the comic book character, who exists in the " real world " where there are no superheroes and discovers that he possesses powers similar to Superman's.

* Hosmer Angel, a character in the Sherlock Holmes story " A Case of Identity "

* The first meeting between Doctor Who and EastEnders occurred in the short story Brief Encounter: Mistaken Identity by Gary Russell, published in Doctor Who Magazine # 174.

" A Case of Identity " is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is the third story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

* Parallel translation of story " A Case of Identity " in Russian and English

( 1986 ), The Batman Chronicles # 21 ( May 2000, solicited as Elseworlds, but has no logo ), Bizarro Comics ( June 2001, which featured the story " Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter " from the cancelled Elseworlds 80-Page Giant ), Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again ( 2001 ), Batman: Digital Justice ( 1990 ), and Superman: Secret Identity ( 2004 ) were referred to as Elseworlds in the DC Universe without the name brand logo.

Despite being seen destroyed in an earlier story, the Injustice Gang's satellite later reappeared during the Identity Crisis miniseries, now a shabby clubhouse for villains in-between schemes.

His short story, " Happily Ever After ", was part of How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity, an anthology of LGBTQ short stories for young adults published in 2009.

Among Cross ' notable achievements: the discovery that Alan Scott is composed of the green flame of the Starheart ; conducting tests and annual checkups for Power Girl ; emergency surgery on Hourman ; removal of the Brainiac virus from Oracle ; the autopsy of Sue Dibny ( Identity Crisis ); removing the sniper bullet that wounds Lois Lane in Umec ( Battery story arc in Adventures of Superman ); conducting DNA tests on Terra ( Terra # 3, 2009 ).

The story was based on the book The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson and the article " A Case of Identity " ( Life magazine, June 29, 1953 ) by Herbert Brean.

Identity conclusions and performances that are problematic for individuals or groups signify the dominance of a problem-saturated story.

The plot device of a typewriter as the ' smoking gun ' is adapted from the Sherlock Holmes story A Case of Identity.

When he was framed by Norman Osborn a few weeks later, he used the costume to become the dark, mysterious Dusk ( one of his four new superhero identities during the Identity Crisis story arc ).

Later on, during the Identity Crisis story, the Trapster would be hired by Norman Osborn to kill a man and make it seem like Spider-Man did it, and in order to cover this up Osborn put a price on Trapster's head, attracting assassins like the Hand and his previous ally Shocker.

*** Identity ( collects # 10-11, 13-19 and a story from DCU Infinite Holiday Special one-shot, tpb, 256 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1484-3 )

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

We are also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

The businessmen and racketeers also have a story.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

* The Thirteen Problems ( short story collection featuring Miss Marple, also published as The Tuesday Club Murders ) ( 1932 )

Miss Marple also appears in Greenshaw's Folly, a short story traditionally included as part of the Poirot collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ( 1960 ).

Amos, however, is the first prophet whose name also serves as the title of the corresponding biblical book in which his story is found.

" Diogenes Laertius also says that Nicocreon, the tyrant of Cyprus, commanded him to be pounded to death in a mortar, and that he endured this torture with fortitude and Cicero relates the same story.

The ansible is also featured in the video game Advent Rising, for which Card helped write the story.

Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ) is also known to have spread the story while lecturing, personalizing it by adding " I have a higher and greater standard of principle.

Virtually all productions today, however, use the original ending, as do nearly all of the film versions of this play, including Dariush Mehrjui's Sara ( the Argentine version, made in 1943 and starring Delia Garcés, does not ; it also modernizes the story, setting it in the early 1940s ).

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

Knights of the South Bronx, a true story of a teacher who worked with disadvantaged children, is another film also set in the Bronx released in 2005.

Carney also ties Beowulf to Irish literature through the Táin Bó Fráech story.

1958 was a watershed year not just for the Bigfoot story itself but also for the culture that surrounds it.

Scholars also suggest that the Deuteronomists also included the humorous and sometimes disparaging commentary found in the book such as the story of the Ephraimite who could not pronounce the word " shibboleth " correctly ( Judg.

However, Ruth's and Naomi's story has also occasionally been interpreted as sexual in nature.

The story is also the first time that the word Jew ( י ְ הו ּ ד ִ י ) was used, thus denoting a distinction between the Hebrews, the Israelites, and their Jewish descendants in the diaspora.

This comb detail is also related to the centuries-old traditional romantic Irish story that, if you ever see a comb lying on the ground in Ireland, you must never pick it up, or the banshees ( or mermaids — stories vary ), having placed it there to lure unsuspecting humans, will spirit such gullible humans away.

Raphael Holinshed also included her story in his Chronicles ( 1577 ), based on Tacitus and Dio, and inspired Shakespeare's younger contemporaries Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher to write a play, Bonduca, in 1610.

She has also appeared in several comic book series, including the Sláine, which featured two runs, titled " Demon Killer " and " Queen of Witches " giving a free interpretation of Boudica's story.

During a major news event one or more of the main news presenters may be sent to present live for the channel from the scene of the story, where they will conduct interviews with the people involved, question correspondents, introduce related reports and also give general information on the story, much as a reporter sent to cover a story would.