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Mystery Books
Tales of suspense and solving crimes have been enjoyed by countless millions of readers. Some of the most prolific writers have made their mark in the literary world by creating puzzles, chills and thrills for the readers.
951 Questions
How much does a science book weigh?
There is no set weight for a science book. Many different books have many different weights based on the content.
Yes. They clarify it at the begining of the chapter.
In Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile what does Jacqueline de Bellefort's revolver look like?
Jacqueline de Bellefort's revolver in Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile is described as small and pearl-handled. It is mentioned that she always carries it with her, tucked into her belt.
The crime novel you are referring to is "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie. In the story, the narrator Dr. Sheppard is revealed to be the killer at the end. The characters in the novel also frequently play mah jong.
What is the theme to 'Oblivion Road'?
The theme of "Oblivion Road" revolves around survival, perseverance, and the human spirit's ability to endure in the face of adversity. It explores themes of hope, redemption, and the importance of human connection in a post-apocalyptic world.
What is a narrative short story?
A narrative short story is a brief work of fiction that tells a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end. It typically focuses on a single plot or conflict involving a limited number of characters and is structured to engage the reader quickly and provide a satisfying resolution by the end. These stories often center on a particular theme or message.
I need a list of mystical powers?
I have a complete list of 84 that I got from mytelekinesis.com
List of Psychic Abilities
01. Aerokinesis is The ability to control and create air currents.
02. All Sight is The ability to see in all aspects. (Light spectrum, Radiation, etc...)
03. Amnemopathy is The ability to erase the long-term and short-term memories of others.
04. Aphrokinesis is The ability to induce a strong infatuation.
05. Astral Precognition is The ability to foresee into the future in dreams.
06. Astral Projection is The ability to project you spirit into the physical and astral realms.
07. Astral Retrocognition is The ability to see into the past in dreams.
08. Atmokinesis is The ability to control pressure changes and the weather.
09. Atmoskinesis is The ability to control and create all four elements. (Earth, Air, Fire and Water).
10. Audiokinesis is the ability to control and create sound waves.
11. Aura View is the ability to see the life forces of plants, animals, and humans.
12. Bi-Location is The ability to project your spirit and be aware of your physical body, meaning to be in two places at once.
13. Biokinesis is The ability to alter any DNA structure.
14. Carieskinesis is The ability to decay and destroy matter.
15. Chaotikinesis is The ability to mentally create chaos and panic.
16. Chronokinesis is The ability to control time.
17. Clairalience is The ability to smell things beyond the normal range of the human nose.
18. Clairaudience is The ability to hear things beyond the normal range of human hearing.
19. Claircognisance is The ability to know that information is correct by a feeling of complete correctness and certainty.
20. Clairgustance is The ability to taste things beyond the normal range of the human tongue.
21. Clairsentience is The ability to know about someone or something without using the five senses.
22. Clairvoyance is The ability to see things beyond the range of normal human vision.
23. Cryokinesis is The ability to control and create ice.
24. Cryptokinesis is The ability to render the physical body unseen.
25. Cytokinesis is The ability to clone any living thing whether it is a human, plant, insect or animal.
26. Deltakinesis is The ability to control chemical reactions.
27. Dynamokinesis is The ability to control and create all four forces. (Electromagnetic, Strong and Weak Nuclear Forces and Gravity).
28. Echokinesis is The ability to mimic another person's voice and actions.
29. Electrokinesis is The ability to control and create electrical fields.
30. Empathy is The ability to read another person's feelings and transmit your own feelings to another person.
31. Empathic Mimicry is The ability to instantly mimic any other psionic ability you come into contact with.
32. Entomopathy is The ability to control insect hordes.
33. Florakinesis is The ability to control plant life.
34. Geokinesis is The ability to control minerals in the earth.
35. Gyrokinesis is The ability to control and create gravitational fields.
36. Heliokinesis is The ability to control solar energy.
37. Hemokinesis is The ability to control Blood.
38. Hormokinesis is The ability to control and create hormones and pheromones.
39. Hyalokinesis is The ability to control and create glass.
40. Hydrokinesis is The ability to control and create water.
41. Hypnokinesis is The ability to control someone's mind by mental manipulation.
42. Illusionarykinesis is The ability of appearances to deceive the mind and senses.
43. Inclinkinesis is The ability to change shape and form.
44. Infectkinesis is The ability to induce poisoning.
45. Internal Vision is The ability to see through solid matter.
46. Invaleskinesis is The ability to use great strength.
47. Levitation is The ability to rise into the air without visible means of support.
48. Lygokinesis is The ability to control raw psionic energy. (Psi Balls/Psi Shields)
49. Magnokinesis is The ability to control metal and create magnetic fields.
50. Necrokinesis is The ability to control the dead and kill the living with a touch.
51. Netherkinesis is The ability to control darkness.
52. Nosokinesis is The ability to control and create diseases, viruses and bacteria.
53. Oneirokinesis is The ability to view and control dreams.
54. Optikinesis is The ability to control the eyesight of living creatures. (Humans, animals, etc...)
55. Peptokinesis is The ability to change the PH of any liquid.
56. Phase Body Shift is The ability to move through solid matter.
57. Photokinesis is The ability to control and create light.
58. Photoniokinesis is The ability to control radiation.
59. Precognition is The ability to foresee into the future.
60. Projection is The ability to project your will onto anything and anywhere around you.
61. Psammokinesis is The ability to control and create sand.
62. Psychokinesis is The ability to move and deform inanimate and living objects that you cannot see.
63. Psi Scanning is The ability to scan a living being
Source(s):mytelekinesis.comI would recommend the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with his Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger, but if you want a more up to date crime-novelist I'd have to say:
Start with someone from your own country so you would have more fun recognizing places and such.
But I can recommend Henning Mankell from Sweden, Jo Nesbø and Gunnar Staalesen both from my home country, Norway, they are truly amazing, inspirational and gifted writers of the crime genre. And Alfred Hitchcock isn't to get about when you talk about crime.
But if you thought of the fantasy-genre I would have to recommend Charlaine harris, Anthony Pierce, Robin Wayne Baily, Terry Brooks, Jack Chalker and Alan Cole.
If you like thrillers it's obvious you have to look for more Stephen King.
Adventure on the other hand is more hard to define since there is so many sides of it. I like the type that is realistic yet unrealistic, with constant action, like you get from Dan Brown, so that's something to start with, all of his books, and if you don't like him than you could check out Margit Sandemo, Ruben Eliasen, Tom Clancy, Ian Fleming, Frederick Forsyth, Colin Forbes, Peter O'Donnell, Kenneth Royce and Wilbur Smith.
Other superb writers you should read the work of are:
- Kim Smaage
- Unni Lindell
- Liza Marklund
- Tom Kristensen
- John Grisham
- C.S. Lewis
- P.D. James
- Peter Cunningham
- Anthony Hopkins
- Joy Fielding
- David Baldacci
- Anne Holt
- Robert Ludlum
What does white horses on the sea mean?
White horses on the sea refer to the foamy white crests of waves formed by strong winds. This natural phenomenon occurs when wind whips up the surface of the water, creating foamy streaks resembling galloping white horses. It can be a sign of rough weather conditions at sea.
Who wrote The Long Night of White Chickens?
The Long Night of White Chickens was written by Francisco Goldman. It is a novel that intertwines the story of a Guatemalan woman's murder with themes of love, betrayal, and political intrigue.
What is Mark Pullen's real name?
Mark Pullen's name is Mark Pullen but I also want to know is he real? and who killed him?
What is a plot summary of honor among thieves jeffrey archer?
Honor Among Thieves is a book written by Jeffrey Archer in 1993. The book is set in 1993 with Saddam Hussein planning to take revenge after the Gulf War by stealing the Declaration of Independence.
What is the purpose of The Red Headed League?
Plot Summary
Dr. Watson drops in on his friend Sherlock Holmes to find him in conversation with a man with fiery red hair, a Mr. Jabez Wilson. Wilson has come to Holmes with a problem concerning an organization for which he was working but that has mysteriously disappeared. Wilson owns a pawnshop but had for the last few months been employed part-time. At Holmes' urging, he tells his story.
Wilson's assistant Vincent Spaulding had pointed out to Wilson a job notice in the newspaper. It was a job sponsored by the Red-Headed League, and only men with red hair need apply. Spaulding convinced Wilson to go to the interview, and because of the bright color of his hair, Wilson was hired. His job was to copy the Encyclopaedia Britannica from 10 A.M. until 2 P.M. He was not to leave the room at all, or he would lose his job. Wilson enjoyed the extra money he made but one Saturday, when he showed up at work, he saw a sign that said the League was dissolved. Wilson set out to discover what had happened to the League, and his well-paying job, but could learn nothing. Spaulding advised that he wait until the League got in touch with him, but Wilson came to seek the advice of Sherlock Holmes.
Holmes asks a few questions about Spaulding, finding out that he has been with Wilson for only a short time, that he works for half the wages of anyone else, that he develops photographs in the pawnshop's cellar, and that he has a mark upon his forehead. Holmes gets excited at the last bit of information, and it seems that he recognizes Spaulding. Holmes then sends Wilson home, saying he will give him advice in a few days. After reflecting for an hour, Holmes, accompanied by Watson, goes to the square in which Wilson's shop is located. Holmes examines the neighborhood, thumps upon the pavement in front of the shop with his walking-stick, and then knocks on the door. A young man, presumably Spaulding, answers, and Holmes asks directions of him. However, he is most interested in observing the knees of the shop assistant's trousers; he sees there what he had expected to see. The two men then walk around the block to see what shops are behind Wilson's shop. There is a tobacco store, a newspaper store, a restaurant, a carriage-depot, and the City and Suburban Bank.
The two men attend a concert that afternoon. Afterwards, Holmes tells Watson that a serious crime is about to be committed and that he needs Watson's help that evening. Watson returns to Holmes' residence at ten that evening, where police agent Peter Jones, of the Scotland Yard, and Mr. Merryweather, of the City and Suburban Bank, are already gathered. Holmes explains that they are going to meet the master criminal John Clay this evening. The men take carriages to the bank and wait in the vault. Merryweather realizes that Clay is about to attempt to steal a large reserve of gold. The four men then quiet down and wait.
After more than an hour, one of the stones on the floor begins to move. John Clay emerges through the hole in the floor. He pulls his partner, a man with fiery red hair, up after him. Holmes springs out from his hiding place and uses his hunting crop to knock the gun out of Clay's hand. The accomplice has dashed back through the hole, but Holmes had warned Jones to put guards in front of Wilson's shop, where the tunnel leads. Jones leads Clay outside to take him to the police station.
In the early hours of the morning, Holmes explains to Watson how he solved the crime. He realized immediately that Wilson's job copying the encyclopedia was simply a ruse to get him out of the pawnshop for several hours a day. Holmes figured that Spaulding, who spent so much time in the pawnshop's cellar, was digging a tunnel leading to a nearby building. By thumping his walking-stick on the pavement, Holmes determined the tunnel stretched behind the house, so he walked around the block to see what businesses were there. When he saw a bank, the tunnel's destination was obvious. Holmes also looked at the knees of Spaulding's trousers to see that they were worn and stained from hours of digging out a tunnel. He knew Spaulding would rob the bank that evening, Saturday, because he would thus have an extra day before the robbery would be discovered and he could make his escape. After solving the problem mentally, Holmes called Jones and Merryweather to help catch the thieves.
Watson openly admires Holmes, but Holmes merely says that solving the case saved him from boredom, a boredom which is already beginning to settle on him again. He says that his life is simply an attempt to "escape from the commonplaces of existence." Watson points out that he helps people as well. Holmes agrees, noting that man himself is nothing, but that his work is everything.
Is Charlaine Harris writing anymore books for her Sookie Stackhouse series?
As of now, Charlaine Harris has concluded the Sookie Stackhouse series with the final book "Dead Ever After" released in 2013. She has not indicated that she plans to write any more books in this series.
Detective Sam Spade went in search of what bird carved from The stuff that dreams are made from?
He went in search for the maltese falcon.
What is the socio-political background of Umberto Eco's 'The Name Of the Rose'?
Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" is set in a Benedictine monastery in Italy during the 14th century. The novel explores themes of power, knowledge, and the conflict between reason and faith amid the backdrop of a tumultuous period in European history marked by religious and political upheaval. Eco uses the historical context to comment on the power dynamics and intellectual debates of the time.
When was the story Lamb To The Slaughter set?
The story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl was first published in 1953. The setting of the story is not explicitly stated, but it is often assumed to take place in the 1950s based on the technology and social norms described in the narrative.
Why is that guy of The Da Vinci Code so white and his eyes are pink?
He doesn't have pink eyes and he isn't albino, he just has very white hair it happens and a lot of people have it. If he was Albino his skin would be extremely pale not not-seen-the-sun-in-ten-years pale.
Who is the most famous American Gothic Writer?
Edgar Allan Poe is arguably the most famous American Gothic writer, known for his macabre tales and poems that explore themes of death, madness, and the supernatural. His works, such as "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven," have had a lasting impact on the genre of Gothic literature.
Who are the main characters in the lucky lottery by Ron Roy?
The main characters in "The Lucky Lottery" by Ron Roy are cousins Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. They form a group called the "A to Z Mysteries" and solve mysteries together.
Show the character sketch of Sherlock Holmes in The Speckled Band?
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," Helen Stoner's twin sister, Julia, dies from an unknown cause shortly before being married. Helen, also engaged to be married, worries about her own safety and takes her case to Sherlock Holmes. Using his powers of observation, intelligence, and perseverance, Holmes races to find the murderer.
Out of Sherlock Holmes' many talents, observation is the most influential to each of his cases. Helen stares in astonishment as Holmes correctly states that the mud on her jacket sleeve came from riding in a dogcart. Then, upon examining Helen's bedroom, he is the first to realize the wire to the call bell is a fake. Without this important skill, neither Sherlock Holmes nor his crime-solving would be the same.
In each of Sherlock Holmes' adventures one thing is proven: no matter how many dead-ends he happens to bumps into, Holmes will never give up. His dedication perseverance when doing something he loves shines throughout each story; he is even willing to get right down on the ground in search of clues. Even a late night excursion to Stoke Moran is not too much for Holmes.As long as he has his faithful associate, Watson, to keep him company no case is ever abandoned.
Holmes' mixture of talents would not be complete without his extreme intelligence. Using logical reasoning, he successfully deduces that Dr. Roylott, Helen and Julia's step-father, killed Julia in order to keep the inheritance saved for her. Holmes even has an explanation for the bell wire connected to the ventilator. Roylott uses it as a bridge for his swamp adder to get into the neighboring bedroom, hoping that it will eventually bite Helen. Holmes always puts each piece of the puzzle in its proper place.
This case ends happily for Helen, who lives on to be married. It does not, however, end on the same note for Dr. Roylott. The antagonist ultimately gets what he deserves. As for Sherlock Holmes, neither poisonous snakes nor wild baboons will ever keep him off a case.
Who kills Emily in the book Body Farm by patricia cornwell?
Emily Steiner was killed by her mother Denesa Steiner. Denesa Steiner used a similar MO to Gaunt that was seen in Cruel and Unusual. Denesa also killed Max Ferguson and Emily's cat Socks.
the term irregulars is used in the Sherlock Holmes books. "The Baker Street Irregulars" were a group of street boys who knew everyone and everything about people in and around the slums of east London in the late 19th century. Holmes paid them for information and gave them work to do in helping him.
