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The tell tale heart - Edgar Allan Poe
Focus on the murder, traditional structure: beginning-middle-end, the police is stupid, nothing is left out, gothic -
The Murder at the Towers - E.V. Knox
The detective is in focus. He is eccentric and clever. He helps the police when a crime is too difficult to solve. Limitted knowledge. -
Lamb to the Slaughter - Rolad Dahl
The police is stupid, beginning-middle-end, murder weapon is very important, both women and men can be killers = equality. -
Graveyard Shift - James M. Reasoner
Hardboiled crime, twist = the narrator is the murder, violent, focus on the murder - not the investegation, american genre, the narrator is a loner in a corrupt society -
Don't you hate having two Heads - Christine Poulson
Twist = the woman is the murder, open ending, both women and men can be killers = equality.