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	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.
		The PI novel was a male-dominated field in which female authors seldom found publication until Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton were finally published in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Detective_fiction (2532 words)

	The Great Detective Stories (1927, 1946 ed.) by Willard Huntington Wright
		Novels of sheer entertainment belong in a different category from those written for purposes of intellectual and æsthetic stimulation; for they are fabricated in a spirit of evanescent diversion, and avoid all the deeper concerns of art.
		Poe, however, is the authentic father of the detective novel as we know it to-day; and the evolution of this literary type began with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842), "The Gold-Bug" (1843), and "The Purloined Letter" (1845).
		The alienist detective is not a far cry from the pathologist detective, and though there have been several doctors with a flair for abnormal psychology who have enacted the role of criminal investigator, it has remained for Anthony Wynne to give the psychiatrist a permanent place in the annals of detection.
	www.mtroyal.ab.ca /gaslight/grtdtecs.htm (11005 words)

	American Mystery and Detective Novels : A Reference Guide
		Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature.
		American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century.
		Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/0313213879 (212 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Detective Fiction
		Detective novels are often referred to as “whodunnits” – the central interest being in finding out who committed a crime.
		One of Victorian Britain's best-selling detective novels was Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (1868), a complex mystery in which a jewel robbery is solved by a police detective, Sergeant Cuff.
		Authors and detectives were usually male, but from the 1980s onwards the genre was reclaimed by woman writers such as Sara Paretsky, who wrote novels featuring tough female private eyes.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=267 (1911 words)

	The Van Dine School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There is still a bit of "amateur detective" status about Colt: like Philo Vance, he is from a higher social stratum than most of the police, and the Police Commissioner's job is usually considered administrative and political, so Colt's involvement in solving actual cases is unusual, and the result of his rare personal abilities.
		There is also a detective in the tale, as well as amateur detection by the good characters; at the end of the story, these detectives will solve the murder, reveal the killer, and reveal all about the villains' schemes.
		That novel dealt with murder in a private museum of Egyptology, a museum located in a private mansion, and whose suspects were mainly specialists in Egyptian art.
	hometown.aol.com /MG4273/abbott.htm (19354 words)

	Scenes of Crime - Crime and Detective Novels
		The Hugh Corbett novel sequence, in which there are ten to date, concerns Corbett, clerk to Edward I and Keeper of the Secret Seal, who is assigned by Edward to investigate political crimes and to counter the spies of Edward's rival, Philip of France.
		Each novel is the story told by a different member of the Canterbury pilgrims, who determine to each tell a tale of mystery and terror in the evenings to counter the more famous tales during the day made famous by Chaucer.
		A somewhat predictable aspect of these novels is that Doherty seems to feel the need to link the past to the present by having the storyteller recognise one of his fellow pilgrims as a protagonist from the past.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/abbey/396/doherty.html (2081 words)

	Detective-Mystery Films
		The plot often centers on the deductive ability, prowess, confidence, or diligence of the detective as he/she attempts to unravel the crime or situation by piecing together clues and circumstances, seeking evidence, interrogating witnesses, and tracking down a criminal.
		The detective studies the intriguing reasons and events leading to the crime, and eventually determines the identity of the villain (a murderer, a master spy, an arch fiend, an unseen evil, or a malignant psychological force).
		If detection and the solution to a crime are not central to a 'mystery' film, then it blends into other genre film types, such as horror or suspense-thrillers.
	www.filmsite.org /mysteryfilms.html (3034 words)

	Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective
		He is the author of several detective novels, all of which, he would be quick to remind us, are out of print.
		Potter wrote several dramas for television, but The Singing Detective (which he had to write with a pen strapped to his hand) was the pinnacle of his long career.
		The Singing Detective is a modern pilgrim’s progress in which three narratives – Marlow’s hospital experiences, the pulp fiction that he is half-composing and half-hallucinating, and the boyhood memories that percolate into both his reality and his fiction – are braided together.
	www.culturevulture.net /Television/SingingDetective.htm (954 words)

	Private Detective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Thanks to the portrayal of private detectives in crime novels, movies and TV programs, the "private eye" is a distinctly American character.
		The first detectives of popular fiction were gifted amateurs who solved murders like a parlor game, often to the dismay of the bumbling police.
		"The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective," Chandler said.
	www.orchardpressmysteries.com /private_detective.html (1258 words)

	Professor sheds light on Latin American detective fiction
		A Cuban colleague informed her that, under the Cuban revolution, the government actually hired writers to write detective novels for mass publication and distribution.
		What she discovered was that 25 percent of the novels published in Cuba between 1972 and 1986 were detective novels.
		The novels are much more political and ideological—and, in a way, much more literary—than some of our detective novels in which a cat is a detective,” she said.
	www.udel.edu /PR/UDaily/2004/braham031604.html (1094 words)

	Latter-day Saints / Mormons in Mystery Novels
		Most Latter-day Saint/Mormon characters in science fiction and fantasy novels are devout, active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, even in stories set hundreds of years in the future or on other planets.
		Some of these novels contain material which some Latter-day Saint readers would find offensive, either because the book was intended by the author as defamation of Christians in general or Mormons in particular, or simply because the portrayal is inaccurate or based on century-old pulp fiction stereotypes.
		Edwards' novel is an example of something extremely rare in the world of literature: a novel focusing on the small Community of Christ denomination (Reorganized Latter Day Saints).
	www.adherents.com /lit/mys_lds.html (3590 words)

	Detective novels take on the world \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But detective novels are usually easier to read, and now, to a greater extent than ever before, they're shedding light about the world outside the United States and Britain.
		Scandinavian authors tend to be on the dark side and bemoan the decline of the welfare state, while Italians often examine their country's pervading corruption.
		NOVEL TWIST: The biggest successes on the international mystery front are Alexander McCall Smith's best-selling novels about 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' set in Botswana.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0808/p12s02-bogn.html (1019 words)

	The Mystery/Detective Novels. -- Julian Barnes Discussion Board
		I find it intriguing that Julian Barnes elected to turn HIMSELF into a fictional person, complete with an invented history and to write detective novels as this new character.
		An author who does this, however, immediately creates a hall of mirrors for the reader: this is Barnes, writing as the character "Dan," in the first person, who is himself writing as the character "Duffy," who is a detective...
		My favorite Barnes novels are: "England, England"; "Flaubert's Parrot," and "Love, etc."
	www.voy.com /43869/755.html (251 words)

	Detective fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He or she frequently has a less intelligent assistant, or foil, who is asked to make apparently irrelevant inquiries, and who acts as an audience surrogate for the explanation of the mystery at the end of the story.
		An American invention like jazz, the earliest private eye (PI) novels by the likes of Dashiell Hammett were considered novels of the proletariat, exploring "mean streets" and the underbelly of corruption within the United States.
		He took the PI novel into people's neighborhoods, exposing the reality that crime can happen next door, not just on the mean streets.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Detective_novels (3119 words)

	American Mystery and Detective Novels — www.greenwood.com
		Landrum makes a welcome addition to existing scholarship on this subject....he adds quite a bit that is new and rewarding....An indispensible resource for anyone undertaking research or a serious study of detective fiction.
		Description: Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature.
		This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre.
	www.greenwood.com /books/bookdetail.asp?sku=LDN%2F (311 words)

	Quick Term Papers, Term papers, 051017
		A comparative analysis of five recent children's detective novels and five recent adult detective novels.
		This paper will argue that the key point of similarity between the two forms of detective fiction is the adherence of the authors to a formula.
		It will be seen that while the adult novels are undeniably more complex than the children's works, both generally present their audiences with the comforting familiarity of formulaic plot and repeating characters.
	www.quicktermpapers.com /lib/essay?AID=netessays&ID=41627 (107 words)

	Joe's Twenty-Five Fave Detective Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But I get a lot a requests for a listing of my favorite detective novels.
		For Joe's illuminating explanation of his choices, hear it straight from the horse's mouth.
		Head on over to the complete, annotated list on Joe's Detective Pages.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /trivia/triv102.html (143 words)

	Detective Novels
		Please can someone who has any collection of Peter Cheney detective novels kindly put it (them) on this web for free downloading.
		I also love Belamy.I blame my age for fogoting the Title of the novel in which Belamy comes as the Detective.
		I left my complete library in SriLanka and came to Canada.I was having almost all the novels by Cheney in my library but unfortunately I do not have even a single copy of those wonderful creations.Whenever I go to Book Stalls I use to search for Cheney in vain.
	www.forumhub.com /elit/7016.17.19.46.html (726 words)

	Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
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		If you've ever read a hardboiled detective story, you may have come across a sentence like,
		Dick: Detective (usually qualified with "private" if not a policeman)
	www.miskatonic.org /slang.html (1967 words)

	british detective novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		british detective novels 1 to 4 of 4 pages.
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