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  2. Mystery fiction - Wikipedia

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    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 . Mystery fiction can be contrasted with hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism.

  3. Psychological thriller - Wikipedia

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    Psychological thriller is a genre combining the thriller and psychological fiction genres. It is commonly used to describe literature or films that deal with psychological narratives in a thriller or thrilling setting.

  4. Psychological fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki, written in 11th-century Japan, was considered by Jorge Luis Borges to be a psychological novel. [4] French theorists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, in A Thousand Plateaus, evaluated the 12th-century Arthurian author Chrétien de Troyes' Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart and Perceval, the Story of the Grail as early examples of the style of the ...

  5. Category:Mystery novels - Wikipedia

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    Mystery novels (i.e. whodunits) should be categorised here. See also Category:Detective novels ; the distinction is based around the element of the unknown (i.e. mystery) - see mystery (fiction) which is a redirect from "mystery novel".

  6. List of fictional detectives - Wikipedia

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    Cormoran Strike – created by Robert Galbraith (a pen name of J.K. Rowling) Jack Taylor - based on Ken Bruen's crime-drama books an Irish ex-cop as a maverick private investigator; The Continental Op – created by Dashiell Hammett; Philo Vance – created by S. S. Van Dine; V. I. Warshawski – created by Sara Paretsky; Nero Wolfe – created ...

  7. Crime fiction - Wikipedia

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    Sherlock Holmes (foreground) oversees the arrest of a criminal; this hero of crime fiction popularized the genre.. Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, 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]

  8. List of detective fiction authors - Wikipedia

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    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

  9. Category:Mystery novels by series - Wikipedia

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