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	Detective Fiction on Stamps
		"Detective Fiction on Stamps" is a relatively small topic, but over two dozen countries have issued postage stamps (and other philatelic items) connected to or commemorating fictional detectives, their creators or cinematic portrayals.
		In some cases the stamps were specifically issued with the theme of detective fiction, notably the 1972 Nicaragua set for the Interpol anniversary: the 12 most famous fictional detectives, and the 1979 San Marino issue.
		Sometimes, as in the case of the Edgar Allan Poe, Georges Simenon, Ngaio Marsh or G.K. Chesterton issues, the stamps were in honor of the authors, without specific reference to their detectives.
	www.trussel.com /detfic/detect.htm (508 words)

	Detective Fiction and Edmund Wilson: A Rejoinder
		In typical fashion, however, he concludes by claiming the reading of detective stories is simply a kind of vice that, for silliness and minor harmfulness, ranks somewhere between crossword puzzles and smoking.
		Given this background it seems only fair that the other side of the argument regarding mystery fiction or detective stories be told and that is the aim of this piece.
		Detective fiction or mysteries is a body of literature that engages the reader.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~gjdemko/praise.htm (2198 words)

	Detective fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centres upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur.
		He or she frequently has a less intelligent assistant, or foil, who is asked to make apparently irrelevant inquiries and acts as an audience surrogate for the explanation of the mystery at the end of the story.
		A beginner to detective fiction would generally be advised against reading anything about a piece of detective fiction (such as a blurb or an introduction) before reading the text itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Detective_fiction (2541 words)

	VictorianCrime
		There are two points to consider when talking about Victorian detective fiction: firstly, that the detective story as a distinct genre is a product of the nineteenth century; and secondly, that only a small amount of the detective fiction produced at the time is still read and studied.
		Although contemporary analyses of 'classic' detective fiction have often been concerned with the construction of 'Englishness' in the genre, the Victorian detective story was influenced by the work of overseas practitioners.
		Yet although the official detective had made a literary appearance, the rise of a new form of crime fiction after the mid-century put the emphasis firmly on the amateur sleuth and, at times, back onto the criminal.
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/VictorianCrime.html (2426 words)

	Detective fiction Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A branch of crime fiction, detective fiction is the fictional genre centered around an investigation by a detective, usually in the form of the investigation of a murder.
		A common feature is that the investigator is usually unmarried, with some source of income other than a regular job, and frequently has an assistant, who is asked to make all kinds of apparently irrelevant inquiries, and acts as an audience surrogate for the explanation of the mystery at the end of the story.
		The Mystery of Marie Roget is particularly interesting, as it is a scarcely fictionalized analysis of the circumstances around the real-life discovery of the body of a young woman named Mary Rogers, in which Poe expounds his theory of what actually happened.
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	PthreeT
		However, it was not until the creation of professional detective forces in the middle of the nineteenth century that public sympathy began shifting away from the outlaw to the detectives who tracked down criminals and brought them to justice.
		In Britain, the detective fiction of the years following the end of the war seemed to be a deliberate attempt by writers to return to 'the good old days' where everyone knew their place in the class structure and everyone worked harmoniously within that structure.
		North American 'hard-boiled' detective fiction was usually set in large cities, the 'new Wild West' as it became known, and the heroes of the many stories were generally loners who shunned romantic entanglements (although they usually wouldn't hesitate to help a lady in trouble).
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/popculture/PthreeT.html (2587 words)

	Detective Fiction
		Detective stories are stories that involve the detection of crime, particularly those that emphasize the search for a solution.
		Reading a detective story is like building a jigsaw puzzle without a picture—slowly, we get an idea of what has really happened, and the climax of the story is reached when the detective solves the riddle and discovers who has committed the crime and why.
		Although there were a number of precursors to the detective story in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the first real detective in fiction is C. Auguste Dupin, created by Edgar Allan Poe in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) and “The Purloined Letter” (1845).
	www.moval.edu /Faculty/adderleym/Englit/detective_fiction.htm (750 words)

	Realist School of Detective Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is similar to the detectives in The Cask reconstructing the movements of the cask and the suspects.
		Sayers used flamboyant amateur detectives, such as Lord Peter Wimsey, instead of the colorless policemen of Crofts and Co. Her backgrounds focus on areas of great personal importance to her, such as religion and women's education, so they are far more emotionally and intellectually significant to her than the businesses described by Crofts.
		Simenon's basic paradigm, routine, realistic detection used as a framework for psychoanalysis of a group of troubled middle class suspects, seems to be the dominant blueprint for much of contemporary detective fiction today.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/realist.htm (5976 words)

	The Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Do not present your detective as an ineffectual fool or allow him or her to show any signs of not being superior to the reader or the 'Watson' (except to the extent that the detective can have misjudgements and miscalculations for the sake of 'bonding' with the reader).
		Initially defining a detective whom readers can 'identify' with as a familiar friend is one of the hardest things, apart from plotting, for a detective novelist to do, but once done removes the burden of re-explication.
		The detective novel must have a detective in it; and a detective is not a detective unless he detects.
	www.mysterylist.com /declog.htm (3345 words)

	mystery. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Charles Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) is a detective novel that is both intriguing and frustrating because, since the novel is unfinished, its crime is never solved.
		Dashiell Hammett initiated the “hard-boiled” detective genre, featuring tough, brash, yet honorable “private eyes” living on the seedy criminal fringe and involved in violent and incredibly complex crimes.
		For example, Agatha Christie is noted for her clever plots, John Dickson Carr for his ingenious “locked room” mysteries, Dick Francis for his depiction of the horse-racing world, and Ruth Rendell for her novels combining character and atmosphere with absorbing police procedure, perceptive sociological and psychological analysis, and a sense of life’s tragedy.
	www.bartleby.com /65/my/mystery.html (666 words)

	ACME Mystery and Detective Fiction Directory - Home
		Any detective or mystery site that covers the genre as a whole or would fit in multiple categories or just does not fit in any of the other categories.
		Magazines and e-zines that are focused on detective, mystery and crime stories.
		Television shows that are mysteries, crime dramas, police procedurals and detective series.
	www.acmedirectory.com (173 words)

	MUSIC IN ENGLISH DETECTIVE FICTION By Philip Scowcroft: MusicWeb(UK)
		Detective fiction is better written and more readable these days, taking the genre as a whole and a plausible, carefully researched background is more of a necessity in the old days when the "whodunit" puzzle was everything.
		Mary Kelly's first series detective, Inspector Brett Nightingale of Scotland Yard, is married to an opera singer who usually appears abroad - a nice reversal of the usual situation - as here the policeman is the grass widower instead of his wife being a "police widow".
		A few detectives, notably Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter Wimsey, are musicians themselves, though this does not make these two, at any rate, better detectives, for they do not, so far as we are told, have any opportunities to use their musical expertise in their cases.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /detective.htm (5709 words)

	89.04.09: Plot, Character and Setting: A Study of Mystery and Detective Fiction
		Mystery fiction is a literary release valve for millions of people who are perfectly willing to suspend their disbelief and become a part of an intricate tale of murder, mayhem and a return to a posh, appealing order.
		The detective hero is a man of the wilderness but the wilderness has disappeared, replaced by the seaminess of the city.
		This is where the detective hero fights against the evils of society, and he is left cynical and disillusioned in the end, his strength remaining because of his own moral code, his own sense of truth and right and wrong.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1989/4/89.04.09.x.html (7071 words)

	Horsley über Rzepka: Detective Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aimed primarily at undergraduates, Charles Rzepka’s Detective Fiction is a cultural history that is attentive to the needs of students, defining its terms clearly and patiently filling in the intellectual and historical background that shaped the genre.
		Detective Fiction adds in useful ways to the critical recognition of how misleading it is to categorise detective fiction as unremittingly conservative – to see it, in Dennis Porter’s phrase, as ›a literature of reassurance and conformism‹ (The Pursuit of Crime, 1981).
		It is this foregrounding of the ›puzzle element‹ that creates a distinct subgenre within detective fiction, the ›detection‹ narrative, in which the activity of solving a crime (instead of simply reporting the activities of a detective) is crucial.
	iasl.uni-muenchen.de /rezensio/liste/Horsley0745629415_1533.html (1025 words)

	Introduction of Literature: Detective Fiction Syllabus
		This course is an examination of mystery and detective fiction, defined in its broadest terms.
		Distinguish between a number of different fictional detectives, and compare and contrast their methods.
		In the annals of fictional detectives, two reign supreme: Sherlock Holmes, invented by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Father Brown, invented by G. Chesterton.
	www.moval.edu /faculty/adderleym/detective.htm (1039 words)

	MUSIC IN ENGLISH DETECTIVE FICTION By Philip Scowcroft: MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Detective fiction is better written and more readable these days, taking the genre as a whole and a plausible, carefully researched background is more of a necessity in the old days when the "whodunit" puzzle was everything.
		Music, like every important human activity, is bound to figure in fiction to some degree and it no doubt does so in crime or detective fiction quite as much as in other types of novels, relatively speaking.
		A few detectives, notably Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter Wimsey, are musicians themselves, though this does not make these two, at any rate, better detectives, for they do not, so far as we are told, have any opportunities to use their musical expertise in their cases.
	www.musicweb-international.com /detective.htm (5709 words)

	Corax: The Crow's Nest \| Detective Fiction
		Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle.
		Detective Fiction and Literature: The Figure on the Carpet.
		"The Typology of Detective Fiction." The Poetics of Prose.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~tkinney/resources/detective.html (768 words)

	Popular Literatures for Non-English Majors (Detective Fiction), Independent Study Online Courses, The University of Iowa
		Reason: One of the "rules" of detective fiction is that detectives must not only solve the crime; they must also explain convincingly and accurately the reasoning that led to this solution.
		Instead, detective fiction’s emphasis on laws and justice reminds us that, in defining these concepts, societies have often assumed that certain individuals are more important than others.
		Because it is difficult for us to write about detective fiction without "giving away" information that might make your reading less enjoyable, you should do the assigned reading before you examine the discussion in the study guide.
	continuetolearn.uiowa.edu /ccp/gis/courses/08a142_p.htm (3527 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Detective Fiction
		Whereas crime fiction can be concerned with any aspect of crime, detective fiction is concerned purely with the process of detection, and has a detective (or detectives) as the central figure.
		Detective novels are often referred to as “whodunnits” – the central interest being in finding out who committed a crime.
		The ‘classic’ late-nineteenth century detective story of the Sherlock Holmes type can be seen as the product of several traditions, including the Newgate Calendar (broadsheets and ballads about criminals due for execution), ‘Penny Bloods’ (sensation novels and melodrama), as well as more ‘literary’ antecedents.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=267 (524 words)

	Detective Novels - An Overview
		The idea of detection and the figure of the detective that would eventually stand at the center of the genre were introduced in the early nineteenth century by a Frenchman, Francois-Eugene Vidocq in his Memoirs of Vidocq
		American detective fiction, with its common man hero, was also influenced by the dime novel, which often drew on frontier settings and heroics that owed to the Leather-Stocking Tales of James Fennimore Cooper in the early 1800s.
		They printed fiction by leading authors of the Merriwell school (F. Scott Fitzgerald was their star) and they paid astonishingly well, up to a dollar a word.
	www.detnovel.com /index.html (2519 words)

	The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
		Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.
		No less impressively, Lytton coined phrases that have become common parlance in our language: "the pen is mightier than the sword," "the great unwashed," and "the almighty dollar" (the latter from The Coming Race, now available from the Broadview Press).
		Entries will be judged by categories, from "general" to detective, western, science fiction, romance, and so on.
	www.bulwer-lytton.com (1145 words)

	Bucknell Hosts Detective Fiction Symposium \|\| Bucknell University
		Crawford, who has been interested in detective fiction since reading Nancy Drew mysteries, says that "Detective fiction allows a reader to zero in on a community and look at it from the inside out, because the detective has to ask all these intimate questions and find out all the secrets in these small communities.
		Detective fiction began with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in Rue Morgue" in 1841.
		Haywood is a screenplay writer who has written 10 detective fiction novels featuring African-American protagonists Aaron Gunner, and the Loudermilks, a sleuthing husband and wife team.
	www.bucknell.edu /x22150.xml (651 words)

	The Art of Detective Fiction >> Palgrave.com : Title Page
		Its essays can be loosely grouped into revisionary histories of the genre, new critical maps of contemporary practice, and valuable attention to women's writing that both looks at gender as a subversive force and shows the potency of the detecting form in shoring up gender conventions.
		Constantly the detective story delights in muddying the waters, in acknowledging the omnipresent possibilities of anarchy and carnage.
		They range generously, taking a variety of theoretical approaches and including detective fiction in languages other than English, but particular attention is paid to the 'Golden Age' of English detective story-writing and to the 'hard-boiled' American version of the genre.
	www.palgrave.com /products/Catalogue.aspx?is=0333746015 (542 words)

	Thrilling New Detective Fiction
		Our very first Thrilling New Detective Fiction is a couple of chapters of a then soon-to-be-released novel by talented newcomer Elizabeth Cosin, featuring Los Angeles private eye Zen Moses..
		Nick Kepler makes his Thrilling Detective debut with a little ditty full of sex, violence and pharmaceuticals.
		Silver City gumshoe Detective Fork is the toughest piece of cutlery to ever go down those mean streets, neither tarnished nor afraid.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /fiction/index.html (1508 words)

	DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY
		While Detective Fiction Weekly (hereafter: DFW) is one of the most reasonably priced detective pulp magazines today, putting together a collection of them is somewhat onerous.
		It was finally reborn as DFW in 1928 until WWII paper shortages in 1942 caused its change to a monthly named Flynn’s Detective, soon to be stretched to Flynn’s Detective Fiction until it stopped in 1944.
		Daly’s primary character in DFW was Frank “Satan” Hall, a police detective whose earlier adventures appeared in Black Mask.
	www.mysteryfile.com /DFW/DFW.html (1880 words)

	MostlyFiction.com BOOK REVIEW: Dectivies & Sleuths Series
		Kidnapped by Jan Burke - When Irene Kelly's articles profiling missing children run in the Las Piernas Express, she anticipates the renewed public interest and the deluge of phone tips and remembered clues; she even anticipates the renewed pain of the anguished parents.
		Snow Blind by P.J. Tracy - Minneapolis police detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth—are on hand for a snowman-building contest their department is sponsoring in a local park.
		The Orchid Shroud by Michelle Wan - Wan's sequel to her debut nicely depicts an appealing village in the Dordogne, a part of France rarely seen as a fictional setting, and two lead characters with interesting vocations.
	mostlyfiction.com /sleuths.htm (1685 words)

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