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Jun 23, 2017 · 2. Fergus Hume, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. Published the same year as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (which is part detective story and part Gothic horror novel), and a year before the first Sherlock Holmes novel, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was a runaway bestseller upon its publication in 1886.
A selection of 10 classic stories featuring some of the detective "rivals of Sherlock Holmes" who began to appear in popular periodicals after Conan Doyle ap...
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Sep 9, 2021 · Writing How to Write a Detective Story: The 5 Elements of Crime Novels. Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Sep 9, 2021 • 5 min read
Crime Genre: Justice and Injustice Stories of Mystery and Intrigue. What is the Crime Genre? An external story in the Crime genre focuses on the Justice / Injustice spectrum while generating feelings in the reader of intrigue (solving the puzzle) and security or personal safety when the perpetrator is exposed.
Books shelved as detective-story: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile by Agat...
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