"Detective story" redirects here. For other uses, see Detective Story.
Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes examines a suspect's boots in an illustration to the 1891 story "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels.[1] Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, and Hercule Poirot. Juvenile stories featuring The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and The Boxcar Children have also remained in print for several decades.
^Michael, Cox (1992). Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192123084.
Detectivefiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates...
Occult detectivefiction is a subgenre of detectivefiction that combines the tropes of the main genre with those of supernatural, fantasy and/or horror...
Japanese detectivefiction (推理小説, suiri shōsetsu, literally deductive reasoning fiction), is a popular genre of Japanese literature. When Western detective fiction...
The Golden Age of DetectiveFiction was an era of classic murder mystery novels of similar patterns and styles, predominantly in the 1920s and 1930s....
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Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and...
facts presented to the reader. Some mystery books are non-fiction. Mystery fiction can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense...
list of detectivefiction writers. Many of these authors may also overlap with authors of crime fiction, mystery fiction, or thriller fiction. Mario Acevedo...
Fictional detectives are characters in detectivefiction. These individuals have long been a staple of detective mystery crime fiction, particularly in...
be convicted in court. A detective may work for the police or privately. Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is a licensed or unlicensed...
Gordon, The Shadow, Doc Savage, and The Phantom Detective. The pulps gave rise to the term pulp fiction in reference to run-of-the-mill, low-quality literature...
multiple subgenres, including detectivefiction (such as the whodunit), courtroom drama, hard-boiled fiction, mystery fiction, and legal thrillers. Suspense...
An inverted detective story, also known as a "howcatchem", is a murder mystery fiction structure in which the commission of the crime is shown or described...
and frequently confused with hardboiled detectivefiction—due to the regular adaptation of hardboiled detective stories in the film noir style—the two...
Moreover, supernatural fiction also tends to focus on suspense and mystery and less on action and adventure. Occult detectivefiction combines the tropes...
different titles per month. Company titles included detective, adventure, romance, and Western fiction. They were also known for the several 'weird menace'...
(often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups...
works of detectivefiction. He is remembered for his "Ten Commandments" for detective stories, which sought to codify a form of crime fiction in which...
that the entire franchise is a blatant ripoff of the many Japanese detectivefiction. The first (1995), second (1995), and third (1997) installments starring:...
Mystery films include, but are not limited to, films in the genre of detectivefiction. While cinema featured characters such as Sherlock Holmes in the early...
West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of DetectiveFiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a moniker which is...
British Empire in 1966. As a crime writer during the "Golden Age of DetectiveFiction", Marsh is known as one of the "Queens of Crime", along with Agatha...
of detective and mystery fiction, exploring various philosophical themes. The first story, City of Glass, features an author of detectivefiction who...
Colin Renfrew, Edinburgh University Press, 1988. Daniel published two detectivefiction novels. The Cambridge Murders (1945) was published under the pseudonym...
Weird menace is a subgenre of horror fiction and detectivefiction that was popular in the pulp magazines of the 1930s and early 1940s. The weird menace...
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