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An early example of an Arabic-language crime story is "The Three Apples", one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights).In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy, locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman ...
Sherlock Holmes (foreground) oversees the arrest of a criminal; this hero of crime fiction popularized the genre.. Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder. [1]
The Gangster (Paul Bettany and Malcolm McDowell) - Gangster No. 1; Benito García (Adal Ramones) - Saving Private Perez; Fernando "El Jefe" Garcia - Close Range; Julio Gonzales (Jimmy Smits) - Running Scared; Hideaki Goto (Kenichi Endo) - The Raid 2; Moe Greene - The Godfather; Manny "Papi" Greco (Edward James Olmos) - 2 Guns
This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero—a protagonist or supporting character whose characteristics include the following: imperfections that separate them from typically heroic characters (such as selfishness, cynicism, ignorance, and bigotry); [1]
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Violence in literature refers to the recurrent use of violence as a storytelling motif in classic and contemporary literature, both fiction and non-fiction. [1] Depending on the nature of the narrative, violence can be represented either through graphic descriptions or psychological and emotional suffering.
The term gong'an originally referred to the table, desk, or bench of a Chinese magistrate. [citation needed] It was later used as a name for unusual legal cases. [9]Gong'an as a genre of fiction has been translated into English as "court-case" fiction [10] or "crime-case" fiction. [11]
A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang. Most gangs are considered to be part of organized crime. Gangsters are also called mobsters, a term derived from mob and the suffix-ster. [1] Gangs provide a level of organization and resources that support much larger and more complex criminal transactions than an individual criminal could ...