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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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   What is a crime fiction writer?

   • Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crime fiction writers from the United States. Crime fiction is a literary genre in which criminal activity or its detection is the central point of the plot. For authors who write genre stories in which a puzzle must be solved, in almost all cases involving a crime, see Category:American mystery writers.

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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...

   • Golden Age of Detective Fiction

     The Golden Age of Detective Fiction was an era of classic...

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     Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that...

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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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