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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 ...
- The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
Detective fiction Short story: Publication; Publisher:...
- List of fictional detectives
Fictional detectives are characters in detective fiction....
- Detective Fiction
This is a list of detective fiction writers. Many of these...
- Crime fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery...
- Golden Age
The Golden Age of Detective Fiction was an era of classic...
- History of crime fiction
In 1887, Scotsman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) gave...
- The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
Feb 13, 2013 · Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever created, and has to be one of the most famous fictional characters in the world, alongside Hamlet, Peter Pan, Oedipus (whose history may qualify as the first detective story in all of literature ), Heathcliff, Dracula, Frankenstein, and others.
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