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    Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within a...
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    Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and...
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    Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates...
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    investigation, and clever deduction. Mystery films include, but are not limited to, films in the genre of detective fiction. While cinema featured characters...
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  • adventure film Mystery, Alaska (1999), a comedy-drama film Mystery fiction, a genre of detective fiction Mystery film, a genre in cinema Mysteries (novel) or...
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  • Cozy mysteries, also referred to as "cosy mysteries" or "cozies", are a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur offstage, the detective...
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  • The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction. These works are set in a time...
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  • Queen's Mystery Magazine is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction...
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    shelf headings within the fiction section of a bookstore, such as Western or mystery. Some authors known for literary fiction have written genre novels...
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  • sometimes called mystery, although this includes non-detective fiction as well. Edogawa Rampo is the first Japanese modern mystery writer and the founder...
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  • adapted from British mystery fiction. In 2002, due to pressure to include more American material, a series based on the novels of US mystery writer Tony Hillerman...
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  • of detective fiction writers. Many of these authors may also overlap with authors of crime fiction, mystery fiction, or thriller fiction. Mario Acevedo...
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  • institutionalized social corruption'". Novels portal Femme fatale Noir fiction (Film noir) Guy Noir Mystery film Naturalism (literature) Damon Runyon Porter, Dennis...
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    Social science fiction Solarpunk Space opera Space Western Steampunk Alternate history Fantasy Historical fiction Horror fiction Mystery fiction Science fantasy...
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  • writers use. For instance, science fiction, fantasy and mystery fiction are genres. Genre fiction also known as popular fiction, is plot-driven fictional works...
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  • inverted detective story, also known as a "howcatchem", is a murder mystery fiction structure in which the commission of the crime is shown or described...
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    The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), The Italian (1796) by Ann Radcliffe, and The Monk (1797) by Matthew Lewis. A significant amount of horror fiction of this...
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  • Jerrilyn Farmer (category American mystery novelists)
    Jerrilyn Farmer is an American mystery fiction writer, author of a series of humorous 'cozy' mysteries featuring Hollywood caterer 'Madeline Bean'. Originally...
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    The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is a mystery fiction novel by the Australian writer Fergus Hume. The book was first published in Australia in 1886. Set in...
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    Harlan Coben (category American mystery writers)
    translated by Toshiki Taguchi, was nominated for the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Mystery Fiction in Translation. Coben's first book to be adapted for...
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  • children's fiction; and only in 1980 five awards to mystery fiction, science fiction, and western fiction. When the Foundation celebrated the 60th postwar...
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  • procedural. Police procedural: the best known variety, a large subgenre of mystery fiction. Lawrence Treat's 1945 novel V as in Victim is cited as perhaps the...
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    a false conclusion. A red herring may be used intentionally, as in mystery fiction or as part of rhetorical strategies (e.g., in politics), or may be...
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  • edition came out in 2012. Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Honkaku Mystery Best 10 Japanese detective fiction The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time Tozai Mistery Best...
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    bookstore and publisher specializing in mystery fiction, located in New York City. It is one of the oldest mystery bookstores in the U.S. In addition to...
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    The "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery is a type of crime seen in crime and detective fiction. The crime in question, typically murder ("locked-room...
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  • orthodox) mystery is one of subgenres of mystery fiction that focuses on "fair play". Mystery novels written during the "Golden Age" of the mystery novel...
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    and The Lady Vanishes. Comedy mystery Comedy mystery is a film genre combining elements of comedy and mystery fiction. Though the genre arguably peaked...
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  • Mr. Mystery is a mystery-fiction book series written by Jim Aitchison under the pseudonym of James Lee (also the author of the Mr. Midnight series). Unlike...
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