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   Who is a crime fiction writer?

   • Authors of crime fiction in which investigation and solution are nongermane (e.g., The Godfather, The Postman Always Rings Twice) are named in the "crime fiction" category, but not as "mystery" writers. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 263 total.

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   What does crime fiction mean?

   • Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.

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   When did crime fiction become a genre?

   • The Adventure of the Empty House, 1903 Crime fiction is a typically 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century genre, dominated by British and American writers. This article explores its historical development as a genre. Crime Fiction came to be recognised as a distinct literary genre, with specialist writers and a devoted readership, in the 19th century.

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   What is detective fiction?

   • 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.

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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 especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.

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     Crime fiction is a typically 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century...

   • Detective fiction

     Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery...

   • Category:American crime fiction writers

     Crime fiction is a literary genre in which criminal activity...

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   The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in 1990 by the Crime Writers' Association (CWA). Five years later, the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) published a similar list named The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. Many titles can be found in both lists.

   No.	Title	Author	Country
   1	The Complete Sherlock Holmes (stories and ...	Arthur Conan Doyle	Scotland
   2	The Maltese Falcon	Dashiell Hammett	USA
   3	Tales of Mystery & Imagination (stories)	Edgar Allan Poe	USA
   4	The Daughter of Time	Josephine Tey	Scotland

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   Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving their audiences heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. [1] This genre is well suited to film and television .