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The Chocolate Box (short story) A Christmas Tragedy; The Clergyman's Daughter (short story) The Coming of Mr Quin; The Companion (short story) The Cornish Mystery; The Crackler; The Cretan Bull (short story)
These individuals have long been a staple of detective mystery crime fiction, particularly in detective novels and short stories. Much of early detective fiction was written during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" (1920s–1930s). These detectives include amateurs, private investigators and professional policemen. They are often ...
I love a good mystery, but I write books because I want to tell people’s stories and explore themes I think are important. In this case, the story I wanted to tell was of a nontraditional family.
The book contains thirty-one stories by Asimov, including fifteen featuring his fictional club of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers, nine of his Union Club mysteries, and seven others (one featuring his science fictional detective Wendell Urth and two featuring his boy detective Larry). Most were reprinted from mystery magazines.
The best mystery novels don’t simply dazzle readers with byzantine plots or throw them off track with unreliable narrators or Macguffins. Here, works from John Le Carré, Michael Connelly, and more.
Darkly funny and of the moment, Hill's stories are studded with killer details, from the Apple watch that goes off at a funeral to the "university campus" in an abandoned Sears. —Marion Winik ...
This list includes pairs or groups of characters who appear in a series of novels or short stories, not characters who are teamed only for a single story. Where two detectives work together, they are listed as A and B; where a single detective is regularly accompanied by a non-detecting sidekick or chronicler they are listed as A with B. The ...
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; [1] [2] Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". [1] C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous ...