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 | | The most popular writer of cosies, and one of the most popular writers of all time, was Agatha Christie, who produced a long series of books featuring her detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, amongst others, and usually including a complex puzzle for the baffled and misdirected reader to try and unravel. |
 | | Priestley specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the 'cosy' was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Erle Stanley Gardner. |
 | | The popularity of cosies has declined in the last four decades, perhaps partly due to the perceived unrealism of ordinary people solving crimes more proficiently than professional lawmen and detectives. |
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