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	The Great Detective Stories (1927, 1946 ed.) by Willard Huntington Wright
		In Doyle the detective story reached what might be termed a purified fruition; and the numerous changes and developments during the past two decades have had to do largely with detail, with the substitution of methods, and with variations in documentary treatment — in short, with current modes.
		Reeve's stories, despite their failure to adhere to probability and to the accepted knowledge of recognized experimenters in the scientific fields, are at times ingenious and interesting, and there is little doubt that they have had a marked influence on modern detective fiction.
		The subject-matter of a detective story — that is, the devices used by the criminal and the methods of deduction resorted to by the detective — is a matter of cardinal importance.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ca /grtdtecs.htm (11005 words)

	Herman Melville and Harriet Prescott Spofford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Their stories tend to be heavily plotted, and often are directly ancestral to such modern genres as the mystery story and science fiction, both of which tend to feature complex plots.
		The story is a full detective tale, and sure seems (on the basis of internal evidence) to be drawing on a cultural tradition of detective stories by other writers.
		What these detective stories are is unclear to me. The 1850's saw the birth of casebook fiction, and Spofford's tale has some similarity to their works, in that it is a short story narrated by the detective hero, concentrating on his detective work in solving the crime.
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	Errors about Detective Stories
		In the detective novel the division of labour is sharply drawn between the reader and the novelist.
		In the detective story it is the hero (or villain) who knows, and the outsider who is deceived.
		The true object of an intelligent detective story is not to baffle the reader, but to enlighten the reader; but to enlighten him in such a manner that each successive portion of the truth comes as a surprise.
	www.chesterton.org /gkc/murderer/errors.htm (1352 words)

	Twenty rules for writing detective stories (1928) by S.S. Van Dine
		And for the writing of detective stories there are very definite laws — unwritten, perhaps, but none the less binding; and every respectable and self-respecting concocter of literary mysteries lives up to them.
		The detective novel must have a detective in it; and a detective is not a detective unless he detects.
		To bring the minds of three or four, or sometimes a gang of detectives to bear on a problem, is not only to disperse the interest and break the direct thread of logic, but to take an unfair advantage of the reader.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ca /vandine.htm (1166 words)

	Why Do People Read Detective Stories?
		Lovers of the genre will deny this, and they are right to do so, for the detective story addict is not content to sit back and enjoy what is called "a cosy read." For full enjoyment of the story, the reader needs to use his brains.
		Not for nothing did Dorothy L. Sayers call her last full-length Wimsey tale "a love story with detective interruptions." Of old, the purists laid down the axiom that love had no place in a detective story and was nothing but an unnecessary and most undesirable effluent when introduced into those otherwise unpolluted waters.
		The painstaking detective measuring footprints, treasuring cigarette ends, taking fingerprints, is a genuine character in real life and often "gets his man," but in fiction his worthy, molelike activities are apt to give a somewhat dull read.
	www.gladysmitchell.com /gmessaywhy.htm (773 words)

	A Defence of Detective Stories
		There is, however, between a good detective story and a bad detective story as much, or, rather more, difference than there is between a good epic and a bad one.
		Not only is a detective story a perfectly legitimate form of art, but it has certain definite and real advantages as an agent of the public weal.
		The first essential value of the detective story lies in this, that it is the earliest and only form of popular literature in which is expressed some sense of the poetry of modern life.
	www.chesterton.org /gkc/murderer/defence_d_stories.htm (955 words)

	Detective Stories
		Wiilkie Collins may be regarded as the father of the English detective story.
		Other writers like Conan Doyle developed the characteristics of the eccentric English detective to a great extent and no reading of English detective fiction would be complete without including these two writers.
		Writers such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Michael Innes and Edmund Crispin created a particularly beguiling type of academic detective story, often set in a university environment which goes far beyond a 'whodunnit?' puzzle in its scope and often includes a wide range of literary and artistic allusion.
	www.angelfire.com /ak/auden/detect.html (211 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Detective Stories (Story Library) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		DETECTIVE STORIES is a wonderful compilation of a few of the best detective stories that have ever been written.
		It's a little bit of a scary story involving a terrified woman who hears the strange, low whistle is the night air that once killed her sister while she was sleeping.
		Any detective story fan shouldn't miss out on this thrilling read, perfect just before bed when it is at the peak of its fright.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0753451468?v=glance (1215 words)

	Willard Huntington Wright: The Great Detective Stories [Kriminallitterære Nyheder] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Even in his best-known so-called detective books — such as Peter Ruff, The Double Four, The Yellow Crayon, and The Honorable Algernon Knox, Detective — the complications of international diplomacy and of the secret service greatly overbalance the criminological research and deductions that are essential to the true detective story.
		The Detective's Holiday, by Charles Barry, is another good example of the plodding, naturalistic detective technic, enlivened by a foil in the presence of a typical French detective of contrasting subtlety and emotionalism.
		The foremost of the modern French writers of detective fiction is Gaston Leroux; in fact, the half dozen or so novels comprising the Aventures Extraordinaires de Joseph Rouletabille, Reporter are among the finest examples of detective stories we possess.
	www.webfic.dk /kriminyt/art/greatdet.htm (10942 words)

	All Star Detective Stories
		All Star Detective Stories was an interesting title from the Clayton line of pulps.
		Actually, the title began as Three Star Stories with the April 1928 issue, published twice a month, for 34 issues, then changed to All Star Detective Stories with the October 1929 issue, and ran for 26 issues under that title.
		All Star Detective Stories was publishing the same authors and the same type of stories that the other houses were publishing at the time.
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	Theory : Speculative Detective Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		And also to create a believable future world in which advanced police techniques don't make all the footwork the detective is doing totally useless (this is where the demolished man comes in, since they actually have telepaths in that world).
		detective story surrounds itself with the importance of mystery.
		Dave, I read your detective story while I was at work, during a break, of course.
	www.speculations.com /rumormill?z=108198 (1910 words)

	Grobius Shortling Detective Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		He either knew the great turn-of-the-century detective William Blackstone Wildman and transcribed the old man's reminiscences, or was actually a mental patient himself and invented them.
		One must note that this was definitely a high-class loony bin, in that inmates had their own rooms and possessions and were allowed to drink port -- call it more an expensive old-folks' home.
		If you want, you can download all these stories as a PDF online book, as long as you have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
	www.mysterylist.com /wildman/wildman.htm (325 words)

	S.S. Van Dine: "Twenty rules for writing detective stories" [Kriminallitterære Nyheder] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		A reader has a chance when matching his wits with a rationalistic detective, but if he must compete with the world of spirits and go chasing about the fourth dimension of metaphysics, he is defeated ab initio.
		The culprit must turn out to be a person who has played a more or less prominent part in the story--that is, a person with whom the reader is familiar and in whom he takes an interest.
		That is to say, pseudo-science and purely imaginative and speculative devices are not to be tolerated in the roman policier.
	www.webfic.dk /kriminyt/art/twenty.htm (1209 words)

	Mystery & Detective Stories
		When Detective John Quincy Jones is told to find the circus’s missing elephant by nightfall, his faithful canine companion must come to the rescue as usual.
		In 1928 when her father takes her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and then takes them to live with their aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.
		McGurk is confined to an upstairs bedroom when he breaks his leg, but that doesn’t stop him and the rest of his detective organization from uncovering a clever robbery scheme that is being plotted right next door.
	www.ci.cerritos.ca.us /library/booklists/mystery_detective.html (802 words)

	Ace Detectives - Mystery Adventure and Fun
		Join in the Adventures of the Ace Detectives - four teenagers from Australia- as they solve mysteries around the world.
		They use computers and high-tech gadgets to solve cases that have connections to the past and present time.
		When the Ace Detectives aren’t solving mysteries they hang out and have fun.
	www.planetozkids.com /Ace_Detectives (60 words)

	Debugging Detective Stories
		He really does give it the pacing and tension of a good detective story.
		So if you have a great story of debugging a particularly nasty bug, post it in the comments of this post or post it on your own blog and link to this one.
		As for me, I don’ have any good debugging stories off the top of my head since, as an independent contractor, I no longer have coworkers to introduce bugs to the code.
	haacked.com /archive/2005/07/11/8601.aspx (382 words)

	Mysteries_espionage_detective_stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		But as a story in its own right, Silverfin is, at best, mediocre...
		Four plucky orphans take on the world : This pleasant story opens as four tired and hungry siblings, aged 5 to 15, press their noses against a bakery window, eyeing the lovely goodies inside.
		They have recently lost their parents and are on the run from their mean grandfather, whom they have never met...
	books.mysic.com /Mysteries_Espionage_Detective_Stories (1400 words)

	Mystery and Detective Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		When Shelley decides to be a detective she uncovers a neighbourhood mystery.
		This story is set in a western New South Wales country town during the summer school holidays.
		Bad trouble lurks for her among the goodies and with her friends in terrible danger Sunny knows that unless she acts fast, this is one story that won't have a happy ending.
	www.brisbanesde.qld.edu.au /library/updatedwebpage2003/mystlist.htm (3812 words)

	Mystery, Detective Stories
		Summary: " The story concerns a desperate race to reach a sunken submarine off the coast of Spain.
		Summary: "The focus of the story is a $300 million narcotics shipment, a fifty-ton cache of marijuana to be moved by ship from Colombia to Newfoundland coastline..." 391 pages.
		Summary: "Here are 16 haunting stories from the few stout-hearted men who aren't afrait of the gentlemen...and nearly scared him to death.
	www.artsolo.ca /?page=shop/browse&category_id=32&PHPSESSID=253f00b5723... (1211 words)

	Mystery Ink: Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories
		The villain could have a helper or "co-plotter," but only one is going to get the ax in the matter.
		The reader should be able to pick the book upon completion and see that the answer was in fact starring at him all the time.
		16) The detective "novel" must be just that, no side issues of "literary dallying" or "atmospheric preoccupations." These devices interfere with the purpose of detective fiction, "which is to state a problem, analyze it" and solve it.
	www.mysteryinkonline.com /2005/01/twenty_rules_fo.html (498 words)

	Dinosaur Expedition 2000
		Perhaps there was only one indication that Greg Wilson might end up becoming a paleontologist — he loved to read Encyclopedia Brown detective stories.
		“Parents, teachers, no-one could get me to read anything unless it was some sort of detective story, mystery or challenge.” Now, as a paleontologist searching for mammals that lived during dinosaur times, Greg has embarked on one of the great detective stories of geologic history.
		To study mammals that lived in prior to all of this diversity, I have to track the story of mammals in the Mesozoic, mammals that lived during the time of the dinosaurs.
	www.projectexploration.org /niger2000/10_30_00_interview_wilson.htm (1518 words)

	Detective Stories From Real Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Detective Stories From Real Life Holy Bible - New Claw Don Quixote H. Rider Haggard The Pilgrim's Progress Johanna Spyri Heidi Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt an Autobiography Actions and Reactions Adam Bede New!
		Wilkie Collins Antonina, or the Fall of Continent The Civilisation of the The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge Mark Twain Tom.
		Detective Stories From Real Life The Devil in the Belfry New!
	ebooks.jeeran.com /Detective-Stories-From-Real-Life.html (2600 words)

	Detective Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Book Description: Young mystery fans will be enthralled by this compelling volume of classic detective fiction.
		Not even Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot can solve the dilemma of which one of these fifteen exciting and intriguing short stories to read first.
		Both the burden of proof and the delectation of detection must fall upon the reader as ultimate sleuth.
	isbn.nu /0753451468 (417 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure Hunt (Encyclopedia Brown) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The book's format is the same as the rest of the series: each chap ter is a complete case (there are ten here), solved by Encyclopedia Brown and left for readers to decipher.
		In police stations across the United States, the same question was asked again and again.
		i enjoy this book because i want to be a detective just like him one day.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553156500?v=glance (885 words)

	Teachers@Random Catalog \| Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
		Juvenile Fiction - Mysteries & Detective Stories
		Theses are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain.
		Try to crack the cases along with him--the answer to all the mysteries are found in the back!
	www.randomhouse.com /teachers/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0553157248 (54 words)

	12 Woman Detective Stories
		The victims of hurricane Katrina need your help.
		Whether a housekeeper, secretary, lodger, or pawn-broker in a seedy area of Victorian London, the woman detective's powers of observation and deduction are most effective in uncovering and resolving crimes.
		These 12 engaging mysteries gives us a glimpse of some of the most memorable characters ever created--such as Miss Marple, Carlotta Carlyle, Sharon McCone and other beloved heroines of the detective novel--by both men and women writers.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/0192880365 (101 words)

	Order mystery books, detective stories and suspense novels
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		Mystery books, detective stories plus suspense novels and crime stories from the author Robert Gallinger.
	www.bookworldinfo.com (105 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Detective Stories (Kingfisher Story Library) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Science Fiction Stories (Red Hot Reads); Paperback ~ Edward Blishen, Karin Littlewood (Illustrator)
		This collection of detective stories features stories by a mixture of classic writers such as Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen as well as more unexpected choices such as Erich Kastner and Italo Calvino.
		Infact I was taken away from the human world, and into the detectives world of mystery and suspence.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0753402343 (318 words)

	boys stories: Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective
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		Search the net for boy boys brown detective encyclopedia stories
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