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Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.

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1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction in other words a novel or short
story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) investigates and solves a crime mystery.
Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes be limited to the
subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle/suspense element and its logical
solution (cf. whodunit), as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty
realism.

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2.Although normally associated with the crime genre, the term "mystery fiction" may in certain
situations refer to a completely different genre, where the focus is on supernatural or thriller mystery
(the solution doesn't have to be logical, and even no crime is involved). This usage was common in
the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, where titles such as Dime Mystery, Thrilling Mystery
and Spicy Mystery offered what at the time were described as "weird menace" stories supernatural
horror in the vein of Grand Guignol. This contrasted with parallel titles of the same names which
contained conventional hardboiled crime fiction. The first use of "mystery" in this sense was by Dime
Mystery, which started out as an ordinary crime fiction magazine but switched to "weird menace"
during the latter part of 1933. [1]

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1 Beginnings
2 Classifications
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Beginnings

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An early work of modern mystery fiction, Das Frulein von Scuderi by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1819), was
an influence on The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe (1841). Wilkie Collins' epistolary
novel The Woman in White was published in 1860, while The Moonstone (1868), is often thought to
be his masterpiece. In 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes, whose mysteries are
said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre. The genre began to
expand near the turn of century with the development of dime novels and pulp magazines. Books
were especially helpful to the genre with many authors writing in the genre in the 1920s. An
important contribution to mystery fiction in the 1920s was the development of the juvenile mystery by
Edward Stratemeyer. Stratemeyer originally developed and wrote the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew
mysteries written under the Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene pseudonyms respectively (and

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were later written by his daughter, Harriet Adams, and other authors). The 1920s also gave rise to
one of the most popular mystery authors of all time, Agatha Christie, whose works include Murder on
the Orient Express (1934), Death on the Nile (1937), and the world's best-selling mystery And Then
There Were None (1939). [2]
The massive popularity of pulp magazines in the 1930s and 1940s increased interest in mystery
fiction. Pulp magazines decreased in popularity in the 1950s with the rise of television so much that
the numerous titles available then are reduced to two today: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. The detective fiction author Ellery Queen (pseudonym of Frederic
Dannay and Manfred B. Lee) is also credited with continuing interest in mystery fiction.
Interest in mystery fiction continues to this day because of various television shows which have used
mystery themes and the many juvenile and adult novels which continue to be published. There is
some overlap with "thriller" or "suspense" novels and like authors in those genres may consider
themselves mystery novelists. Comic books and like graphic novels have carried on the tradition, and
film adaptations have helped to re-popularize the genre in recent times.[3]

Classifications

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Mystery fiction can be divided into numerous categories, among them the "traditional mystery", "legal
thriller", " medical thriller", "cozy mystery", "police procedural", and "hardboiled" (for instance,
Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon's main detective, Sam Spade).

See also

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Detective fiction
List of crime writers
List of female detective characters
Art theft
Category:Mystery novels
List of mystery writers
List of thriller authors
Mystery film
The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
Giallo

References

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1. ^ Haining, Peter (2000). The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines. Prion Books. ISBN1-85375388-2.
2. ^ Davies, Helen; Marjorie Dorfman, Mary Fons, Deborah Hawkins, Martin Hintz, Linnea Lundgren, David
Priess, Julia Clark Robinson, Paul Seaburn, Heidi Stevens, and Steve Theunissen (14 September 2007).
"21 Best-Selling Books of All Time" . Editors of Publications International, Ltd.. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
3. ^ J. Madison Davis: How graphic can a mystery be?, World Literature Today, July-August 2007

External links
Mystery genre

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at the Open Directory Project

Mystery Fiction at TV Tropes.


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