Mystery fiction
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Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, often a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually
Cover of the pulp mystery-fiction magazine Mystery (January 1934)
Novels by Agatha Christie
Crime fiction
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Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives or fiction that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investi
Mystery fiction
…detective fiction was popularized only later, in the late 19th century, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, considered milestones in crime fiction. The detective story shares some similarities with mystery fiction in that it also has a mystery to be solved, clues, red herrings, some plot twists…
Sherlock Holmes (foreground) oversees the arrest of a criminal; this hero of crime fiction popularized the genre.
Cover art for 'The mystery of a hansom cab', written by Fergus W. Hume