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The "whodunit" flourished during the so-called "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", between the First and Second World Wars, [13] when it was the predominant mode of crime writing. Many of the best-known writers of whodunits in this period were British – notably Agatha Christie , Nicholas Blake , G. K. Chesterton , Christianna Brand , Edmund ...
This is a list of crime writers with a Wikipedia page. They may include the authors of any subgenre of crime fiction , including detective , mystery or hard-boiled . Some of these may overlap with the List of thriller authors .
Aside from his Raffles stories, Hornung was a prodigious writer of fiction, publishing numerous books from 1890, with A Bride from the Bush to his 1914 novel The Crime Doctor. The First World War brought an end to Hornung's fictional output. His son, Oscar, was killed at the Second Battle of Ypres in July 1915.
Fictional detectives are characters in detective fiction. 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).
The Chief Inspector Armand Gamache book series contains little or no sex or violence and has been referred to as a kinder and gentler alternative to modern crime fiction. [8] Penny herself stated that "The Murder Stone, like all the Gamache novels, is about love and friendship. About belonging and hope. And finding kindness buried. In the ...
Although Wynne's invention was based on earlier puzzle forms, such as the word diamond, he introduced a number of innovations (e.g. the use of horizontal and vertical lines to create boxes for solvers to enter letters). He subsequently pioneered the use of black squares in a symmetrical arrangement to separate words in rows and columns.
Crime fiction is a literary genre in which criminal activity or its detection is the central point of the plot. For authors who write genre stories in which a puzzle must be solved, in almost all cases involving a crime, see Category:American mystery writers .
Michael Dibdin (1947–2007), crime fiction; Charles Dickens (1812–1870), The Pickwick Papers; Mary Angela Dickens (1862–1948) Monica Dickens (1915–1992) Anne Hepple Dickinson (1877–1959), romances; Peter Dickinson (1927–2015) Alice Diehl (1844–1912) Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857–1932), The Story of a ...