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Cozy mystery. Cozy mysteries (also referred to as cozies), are a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur offstage, the detective is an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. Cozies thus stand in contrast to hardboiled fiction, in which more violence and explicit ...
Print (Magazine) Publication date. April 1841. " 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]
Occupation. Detective (hobbyist) Nationality. French. Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin [oɡyst dypɛ̃] is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's 1841 short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", widely considered the first detective fiction story. [1] He reappears in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt ...
The closed circle of suspects is a common element of detective fiction, and the subgenre that employs it can be referred to as the closed circle mystery. [1][2][3] Less precisely, this subgenre – works with the closed circle literary device – is simply known as the "classic", "traditional" or "cozy" detective fiction. [4][5]
The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. [2][3] The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence [1] and the US edition at $2.00.
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 ...
The Moving Finger (series) The Body in the Library is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942 [1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in May of the same year. [2] The US edition retailed at $2.00 [1] and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence. [2]
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 [1] and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921.