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In Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, a murder occurs among a group of strangers in a house on an isolated island. The closed circle of suspects is a common element of detective fiction , and the subgenre that employs it can be referred to as the closed circle mystery .
Taken at the Flood is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under the title of There is a Tide . . . [ 1 ] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in the November of the same year under Christie's original title. [ 2 ]
Mary Ann Shaffer (and Annie Barrows) — The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society; M. P. Shiel — The New King; Nevil Shute — Trustee from the Toolroom; Philip Sidney* — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia; Shel Silverstein* — Runny Babbit; Thorne Smith — The Passionate Witch (with Norman H. Matson) Theodore Sturgeon — Godbody
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The Razer Kraken is a gaming/music headphone range created by Razer Inc. [60] "Kraken" is a modern make of twin-hose regulator for scuba diving. [61] Attorney Sidney Powell referred to releasing supposed evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election as "[releasing] the Kraken," inspiring a wave of memes and criticism. [62]
The English word "kraken" (in the sense of sea monster) derives from Norwegian kraken or krakjen, which are the definite forms of krake ("the krake"). [6] [7]According to a Norwegian dictionary, the root meaning of krake is "malformed or overgrown, crooked tree". [8]
Cthulhu Mythos scholar Robert M. Price claims the irregular sonnet "The Kraken", [5] published in 1830 by Alfred Tennyson, was a major inspiration, since both reference a huge aquatic creature sleeping for an eternity at the bottom of the ocean and destined to emerge from its slumber in an apocalyptic age. [6]
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.