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Crime Never Pays Essay

The book "Crime Never Pays" is a collection of short criminal stories edited by Clare West. It features works from famous authors like Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The title of the book refers to the saying that committing crimes will never result in long-term gains for criminals, as they will eventually be caught and punished for their illegal acts. However, the stories show that criminals are not always brought to justice by law enforcement, as sometimes fate itself delivers fitting punishment for evil deeds.

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Crime Never Pays Essay

The book "Crime Never Pays" is a collection of short criminal stories edited by Clare West. It features works from famous authors like Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The title of the book refers to the saying that committing crimes will never result in long-term gains for criminals, as they will eventually be caught and punished for their illegal acts. However, the stories show that criminals are not always brought to justice by law enforcement, as sometimes fate itself delivers fitting punishment for evil deeds.

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Essay on Crime Never Pays

The book Crime Never Pays is a compilation of short stories, edited by Clare West, with

the main genre of criminal literature. Some of the authors that are included in the book are easily

recognisable at first sight; mainly I’m referring to Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,

but there are other very important figures in the genre. Although some of these stories are not as

famous as most of the works these authors did, they are a good way to introduce new readers into

this kind of literary books, showing them some characteristics of the criminal writing and, more

specifically, characteristics of each writer.

It is also worth mentioning the meaning of the title, for it is a frequently used expression.

It means that committing a crime is never going to be something positive for the criminal in the

long run, it may seem tempting in the moment, but it’s definitely not the proper way. Following

this way of thinking, robbers, murders or any other kind of person that does something illegal

will be caught and punished, leaving whatever advantages the crime had brought them in a short

and useless period of time. However, as we’ll realise in the stories told in the book, it’s not

always the law, whether it be official authorities or personal representation of it, that manages to

face the criminal. Sometimes we could say that the destiny or fortune itself is the maker of the

fair punishment the evil doers suffer as an answer to their acts.

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