Sentences with phrase «piece about murder»

Dial M remains more of a filmed play than a motion picture, unfortunately revealed as a conversation piece about murder which talks up much more suspense than it actually delivers.

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Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

This free sampler contains the first 6 chapters of Credence Foundation (A Science Fiction Novel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 words...

As my colleague Laura Miller noted in her own piece about the Hachette controversy, it wasn't so long ago that the big New York publishing houses were screaming bloody murder about arm - twisting from Barnes & Noble and Borders.

But, as far as the jury were concerned, it was believed the piece de resistance could have been the single particle of firearm discharge residue (FDR) found about a year after the murder in George's overcoat.

If you were so inclined, you could spend the rest of the day cruising around the web reading all sorts of obituaries and related feature pieces about his life, his apparent insanity, and, of course, his murder conviction.