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The first famous detective in fiction was Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. [1] Later, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes became the most famous example and remains so to this day. The detectives are often accompanied by a Dr. Watson–like assistant or narrator.
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. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely ...
A subgenre is the campus murder mystery, where the closed university setting substitutes for the country house of Golden Age detective novels; examples include Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night, Edmund Crispin's Gervase Fen mysteries, Carolyn Gold Heilbrun's Kate Fansler mysteries and Colin Dexter's The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn.
Detective Creator Debut Karen Andersen: Louise Burfitt-Dons: The Missing Activist [1] (2018) : Angel: Joss Whedon: Angel (TV) (1999) : Harry Angel: William Hjortsberg: Falling Angel (1978) : Lew Archer
This is a list of detective fiction writers. Many of these authors may also overlap with authors of crime fiction, mystery fiction, or thriller fiction. A–C
Sherlock Holmes (foreground) oversees the arrest of a criminal; this hero of crime fiction popularized the genre.. Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, 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. [1]
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Loosely disguised version of Queens' College [5] St Botolph's College, example college in Cambridge University Computing Service documentation. St Bride's College, the setting for much of Charlie Cochrane's Cambridge Fellows Mysteries; St Cedd's College, various works by Douglas Adams. Based on St. John's College, the alma mater of Douglas Adams