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This was the Golden Age of the Chinese detective story. This era was flooded with translations of Western works as well as native Chinese series detectives. [4] Short story writer Cheng Xiaoqing (程小青 ) was the most successful and prolific author of original Chinese crime fiction during the Republican Era in mainland China. [5]
Vaduvur Duraisami Iyengar (1880 – 1942) [1] was a Tamil writer of detective fiction in the 1940s. He is one of the pioneer in detective story writing in Tamil language. [2] His protagonist, Digambara Samiar, was a sanyasi or holy man on a mission to fight crime. Some of his works are made into movies such as Menaka (1935 film), [3] [4] Menaka ...
Never having written a novel before, and writing it in his second language of English, he latched onto the "detective story as a ready-made framework". [13] Thus was born his protagonist Inspector Chen Cao, like Qiu a Chinese poet and translator from Shanghai who studied English literature, but also a policeman.
The central character is often a detective (such as Sherlock Holmes), who eventually solves the mystery by logical deduction from facts presented to the reader. [2] Some mystery books are non-fiction. Mystery fiction can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element and its logical solution such as a whodunit.
Cheng Xiaoqing is known as the "Grand Master of China's Detective Fiction" as well as the "Conan Doyle in Eastern World." [1] His first story "The Shadow in the Lamplight" (灯光人影) was published by Shanghai Newspaper when he was twenty-one years old and it was well received by its readership. Later, he started to publish more famous ...
Later, in a letter dated 5 July 2021, CBSE announced a special scheme of assessment for board examination of classes X and XII for the session 2021–22 in which the academic year was divided into 2 terms with approximately 50% syllabus in each term to increase the probability of boards being conducted by CBSE and to avoid depending on schools ...
Under Florida law, a person who is 24 years old or older who has sex with a person 16 or 17 years of age has committed a second-degree felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
The project started from Diao Yinan's idea to film a detective story. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Diao spent eight years in total writing the screenplay; [ 5 ] the final version that was filmed was the third draft. The film was then laid out into a detective film noir .