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detective story: see mystery mystery or mystery story, literary genre in which the cause (or causes) of a mysterious happening, often a crime, is gradually revealed by the hero or heroine; this is accomplished through a mixture of intelligence, ingenuity, the logical ..... Click the link for more information. . detective storyType of popular literature dealing with the step-by-step investigation and solution of a crime, usually murder. The first detective story was Edgar Allan Poe's “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841). The genre soon expanded to novel length. Sherlock Holmes, the first fictional detective to become a household name, first appeared in Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet (1887). The 1930s was the golden age of the detective novel, exemplified by the books of Dashiell Hammett. The introduction of mass-produced paperback books in the late 1930s made detective stories readily accessible to a wide public, and well-known fictional detectives were created by G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, and Georges Simenon. Among present-day mystery writers P.D. James and Dick Francis rank high. |
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Of course, Reed positions this theory as satirical, a parody of a dime store detective novel denouement in which the villains turn out to have been plotting for the past 5,000 years. This imaginative historical detective novel spans the 1930s and '40s, allowing Collins to incorporate WW II, organized crime, and Hollywood union improprieties in one fell swoop. The students are able to use their texts and notes to pull together a presentation explaining each forensic technique, illustrating them with specific examples from the detective novels. |
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