Sherlock Holmes is a fictional British character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published appearance in the 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual, in the short story A Study in Scarlet. The character of Sherlock Holmes works as a "consulting detective" both for london metropolitan police and for private hire. He is not an official police detective nor does he ... one who truly qualifies as a friend. As Holmes put it's himself, "I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson. I always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much...

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... as full Americans or even full-fledged human beings. This poet was not alone though as Black art suffered greatly them in America and these people tried to fuse as little Black and as much American as possible into their craft in a bid to be given a chance to fit into the Caucasian standard of what was consider American. But what exactly ... the publishing business to make money, they shy away from such works. It almost seems that the general consensus was that black people don't possess analytical skill. The author of Scarlet Sister Mary said her neighbor didn't take well to the book b...

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... in the post-war era, and lasted in a classic period until about 1960. Film noir is a distinct branch, sub-genre or offshoot of the crime/gangster sagas from the 1930s (i.e., Little Caesar (1930), Public Enemy (1931) and Scarface (1932)), but different in tone and characterization. The criminal, violence or greed elements in film noir are a metaphoric symptom of society's evils, with ... - the blonde-haired femme fatale, and her husband, and the border-town B-movie classic Touch of Evil (1958). Early classic non-detective film noirs include Fritz Lang's steamy and fatalistic Scarlet Stre...

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