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175 relations: Abbasid Caliphate, Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, Alter ego, American Psycho, Amnesia, And Then There Were None, Arabic literature, Art theft, Arthur Conan Doyle, Émile Gaboriau, Bloomsbury Publishing, Book of Tobit, Bret Easton Ellis, Brill Publishers, C. Auguste Dupin, Canon of Sherlock Holmes, Canongate Books, Caper story, Carl Hiaasen, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Charles Dickens, Cheng Xiaoqing, Chinese crime fiction, City mysteries, Cold War, Cozy mystery, Crime comics, Crime Writers' Association, Cultural Revolution, Cyril Hare, Dashiell Hammett, Death on the Nile, Detective fiction, Dorothy L. Sayers, Double Indemnity, Double Indemnity (novel), Dr. Watson, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Edinburgh, Ellery Queen, Epic of Gilgamesh, Eric Ambler, Espionage, Ethel Lina White, Evan Hunter, Expert witness, Fergus Hume, Florida, ... Expand index (125 more) »
Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.
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Alter ego
An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality.
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American Psycho
American Psycho is a horror novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991.
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Amnesia
Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases,Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2009) Cognitive Neuroscience: The biology of the mind.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, who described it as the most difficult of her books to write.
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Arabic literature
Arabic literature (الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language.
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Art theft
Art theft, sometimes called artnapping, is the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician.
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Émile Gaboriau
Émile Gaboriau (9 November 183228 September 1873) was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.
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Book of Tobit
The Book of Tobit is an apocryphal Jewish work from the 3rd or early 2nd century BCE which describes how God tests the faithful, responds to prayers, and protects the covenant community (i.e., the Israelites).
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Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author and screenwriter.
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Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.
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C. Auguste Dupin
Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Canon of Sherlock Holmes
Traditionally, the canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Canongate Books
Canongate Books (trading as Canongate) is an independent publishing firm based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Caper story
The caper story is a subgenre of crime fiction.
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Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen (born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist.
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Carlo Emilio Gadda
Carlo Emilio Gadda (14 November 1893 – 21 May 1973) was an Italian writer and poet.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.
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Cheng Xiaoqing
Cheng Xiaoqing (2 June 1893 – 12 October 1976) was a Chinese detective fiction writer and foreign detective fiction translator.
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Chinese crime fiction
Chinese crime fiction is an umbrella term which generally refers to Sinophone literature concerned with the investigation and punishment of criminal acts.
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City mysteries
City mysteries are a 19th-century genre of popular novel, in which characters explore the secret underworlds of cities and uncover corruption and exploitation. Crime fiction and city mysteries are literary genres.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Cozy mystery
Cozy mysteries (also referred to as cozies), are a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur offstage, the detective is an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. Crime fiction and cozy mystery are literary genres.
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Crime comics
Crime comics is a genre of American comic books and format of crime fiction.
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Crime Writers' Association
The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) is a specialist authors' organisation in the United Kingdom, most notable for its "Dagger" awards for the best crime writing of the year, and the Diamond Dagger awarded to an author for lifetime achievement.
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Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Cyril Hare
Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (4 September 1900 – 25 August 1958) was an English barrister, judgeHis Honour A. A. Gordon Clark (Obituaries) The Times Tuesday, 26 August 1958; pg.
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Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories.
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Death on the Nile
Death on the Nile is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year.
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Detective fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. Crime fiction and detective fiction are literary genres.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.
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Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity is a 1944 American crime thriller film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written with Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom.
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Double Indemnity (novel)
Double Indemnity is a 1943 crime novel by American journalist-turned-novelist James M. Cain.
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Dr. Watson
John H. Watson, known as Dr.
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
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Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971).
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Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia.
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Eric Ambler
Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre.
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Espionage
Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence).
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Ethel Lina White
Ethel Lina White (2 April 1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales.
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Evan Hunter
Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino; October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author of crime and mystery fiction.
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Expert witness
An expert witness, particularly in common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, is a person whose opinion by virtue of education, training, certification, skills or experience, is accepted by the judge as an expert.
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Fergus Hume
Ferguson Wright Hume (8 July 1859 – 12 July 1932), known as Fergus Hume, was a prolific English novelist, known for his detective fiction, thrillers and mysteries.
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Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Forensic science
Forensic science, also known as criminalistics, is the application of science principles and methods to support legal decision-making in matters of criminal and civil law.
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Francoist Spain
Francoist Spain (España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo.
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Gallows
A gallows (or less precisely scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended or "weighed".
Genre
Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.
Genre fiction
Genre fiction, also known as formula fiction or popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre.
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Giallo
In Italian cinema, giallo (gialli; from) is a genre of murder mystery fiction that often contains slasher, thriller, psychological horror, psychological thriller, sexploitation, and, less frequently, supernatural horror elements.
Gorky Park (novel)
Gorky Park is a 1981 crime novel written by American author Martin Cruz Smith.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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H. C. Bailey
Henry Christopher Bailey (1 February 1878 – 24 March 1961) was an English author of detective fiction.
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Hardboiled
Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction).
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Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature.
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Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.
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Harun al-Rashid
Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi (Abū Ja'far Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī), or simply Harun ibn al-Mahdi (or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Harun al-Rashid (Hārūn ar-Rashīd), was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809.
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Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie.
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Hillary Waugh
Hillary Baldwin Waugh (June 22, 1920 – December 8, 2008) was a pioneering American mystery novelist.
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Historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events. Crime fiction and historical fiction are literary genres.
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Historical mystery
The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction. Crime fiction and historical mystery are literary genres.
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History of India
Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.
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History of Japan
The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago.
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History of the People's Republic of China (1949–1976)
The time period in China from the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 until Mao's death in 1976 is commonly known as Maoist China and Red China.
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Insanity
Insanity, madness, lunacy, and craziness are behaviors caused by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.
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Intelligence agency
An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, public safety, and foreign policy objectives.
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Ira Levin
Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter.
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Ja'far ibn Yahya
Jafar ibn Yahya Barmaki or Jafar al-Barmaki (جعفر بن یحیی برمکی, جعفر بن يحيى, Jafar bin yaḥyā) (767–803), also called Aba-Fadl, was a Persian vizier of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, succeeding his father (Yahya ibn Khalid) in that position.
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James M. Cain
James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter.
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John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn.
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John le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television.
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Julian Barnes
Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer.
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Julian Symons
Julian Gustave Symons (originally Gustave Julian Symons, pronounced SIMM-ons; 30 May 1912 – 19 November 1994) was a British crime writer and poet.
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Kenneth McLeish
John Kenneth Tyrrell McLeish, known as Kenneth McLeish (1940–1997) was a British writer, playwright and translator.
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Last Seen Wearing ... (Hillary Waugh novel)
Last Seen Wearing... (1952) is a detective novel by Hillary Waugh frequently referred to as the police procedural par excellence.
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Legal drama
Legal drama is a genre of film and television that generally focuses on narratives regarding legal practice and the justice system.
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Legal thriller
The legal thriller genre is a type of crime fiction genre that focuses on the proceedings of the investigation, with particular reference to the impacts on courtroom proceedings and the lives of characters.
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Leonardo Sciascia
Leonardo Sciascia (8 January 1921 – 20 November 1989) was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician.
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Les Habits Noirs
Cover for a French edition of ''Les Habits Noirs''. Les Habits Noirs is a book series written over a thirty-year period, comprising eleven novels, created by Paul Féval, père, a 19th-century French writer.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. Landon's writings are emblematic of the transition from Romanticism to Victorian literature.
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List of crime writers
This is a list of crime writers with a Wikipedia page.
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List of female detective characters
This is a list of fictional female investigators from novels, short stories, radio, television, films and video games.
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List of fictional detectives
Fictional detectives are characters in detective fiction.
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Literary fiction
Literary fiction, mainstream fiction, non-genre fiction, serious fiction, high literature, artistic literature, and sometimes just literature, are labels that, in the book trade, refer to market novels that do not fit neatly into an established genre (see genre fiction); or, otherwise, refer to novels that are character-driven rather than plot-driven, examine the human condition, use language in an experimental or poetic fashion, or are simply considered serious art.
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Locked-room mystery
The "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery is a type of crime seen in crime and detective fiction.
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Lord Peter Wimsey
Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh).
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Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
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Margery Allingham
Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.
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Martin Cruz Smith
Martin Cruz Smith, born Martin William Smith (November 3, 1942), is an American writer of mystery and suspense fiction, mostly in an international or historical setting.
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Mass media
Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.
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Mass production
Mass production, also known as flow production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines.
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McClure's
McClure's or McClure's Magazine (1893–1929) was an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century.
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Melville Davisson Post
Melville Davisson Post (April 19, 1869 – June 23, 1930) was an American writer, born in Harrison County, West Virginia.
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
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Miss Marple
Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories.
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Monsieur Lecoq (novel)
Monsieur Lecoq is a novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Émile Gaboriau, whom André Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction".
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Murder mystery game
A murder mystery game is a type of party game in which players investigate and solve fictitious murders.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express is a work of detective fiction by English writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
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Mystery fiction
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. Crime fiction and mystery fiction are literary genres.
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Mystery film
A mystery film is a film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime.
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Nordic noir
Nordic noir, also known as Scandinavian noir, is a genre of crime fiction usually written from a police point of view and set in Scandinavia or the Nordic countries. Crime fiction and Nordic noir are literary genres.
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Novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.
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One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
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Organized crime
Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local group of centralized enterprises run to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit.
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Parody
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is an American crime writer.
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Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith (born Mary Patricia Plangman; January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley.
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Paul Féval, père
Paul Henri Corentin Féval, père (29 September 1816 - 8 March 1887) was a French novelist and dramatist.
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Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (10 March 183319 July 1891) was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
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Philo Vance
Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Plot twist
A plot twist is a literary technique that introduces a radical change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot in a work of fiction.
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Police procedural
The police procedural, police show, or police crime drama is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasises the investigative procedure of police officers, police detectives, or law enforcement agencies as the protagonists, as contrasted with other genres that focus on non-police investigators such as private investigators.
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
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Psychological thriller
Psychological thriller is a genre combining the thriller and psychological fiction genres.
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Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.
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Red Harvest
Red Harvest (1929) is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett.
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Ronald Knox
Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (17 February 1888 – 24 August 1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, author, and radio broadcaster.
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Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
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Ruth Snyder
May Ruth Snyder (née Brown; March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American murderer.
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S. S. Van Dine
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Scheherazade
Scheherazade is a major character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
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Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs.
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Serial killer
A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders two or more people,An offender can be anyone.
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Sharon Stone
Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress, painter and former model.
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Slavery
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.
Sliver (film)
Sliver is a 1993 American erotic thriller film starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, and Tom Berenger.
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Sliver (novel)
Sliver is an erotic novel by the American writer Ira Levin, first published in 1991.
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Spy fiction
Spy fiction is a genre of literature involving espionage as an important context or plot device.
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Steen Steensen Blicher
Steen Steensen Blicher (11 October 1782, Vium – 26 March 1848 in Spentrup) was an author and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark.
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Suspense
Suspense is a state of anxiety or excitement caused by mysteriousness, uncertainty, doubt, or undecidedness.
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The Boys from Brazil (film)
The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
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The Boys from Brazil (novel)
The Boys from Brazil is a 1976 thriller novel by American writer Ira Levin.
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The Final Problem
"The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes.
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The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave.
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The Moonstone
The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins is an 1868 British epistolary novel.
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The Murder at the Vicarage
The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a detective novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, her third to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective.
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841.
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is a mystery fiction novel by the Australian writer Fergus Hume.
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The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel)
The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by American writer James M. Cain.
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The Purloined Letter
"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe.
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The Rector of Veilbye
The Rector of Veilbye (Præsten i Vejlbye) is a crime mystery written in 1829 by the Danish author Steen Steensen Blicher.
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The Simple Art of Murder
The Simple Art of Murder is the title of several quasi-connected publications by hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler.
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The Strand Magazine
The Strand Magazine was a monthly British magazine founded by George Newnes, composed of short fiction and general interest articles.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr.
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The Three Apples
The Three Apples (التفاحات الثلاثة), or The Tale of the Murdered Woman (Hikayat as-Sabiyya al-Maqtula), is a story contained in the One Thousand and One Nights collection (also known as the "Arabian Nights").
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The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in book form in 1990 by the British-based Crime Writers' Association.
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The Woman in White (novel)
The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins's fifth published novel, written in 1860 and set from 1849 to 1850.
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Thriller (genre)
Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Crime fiction and Thriller (genre) are literary genres.
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Tigris
The Tigris (see below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee.
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Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.
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Unreliable narrator
In literature, film, and other such arts, an unreliable narrator is a narrator who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised.
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Urashima Tarō
is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale (otogi banashi), who, in a typical modern version, is a fisherman rewarded for rescuing a turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) beneath the sea.
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Val McDermid
Valarie McDermid, (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of novels featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill, in a sub-genre known as Tartan Noir.
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Vizier
A vizier (wazīr; vazīr) is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the Near East.
Wayne State University Press
Wayne State University Press (or WSU Press) is a university press that is part of Wayne State University.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
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Whodunit
A whodunit (less commonly spelled—or misspelled—as whodunnit; a colloquial elision of "Who done it?") is a complex plot-driven variety of detective fiction in which the puzzle regarding who committed the crime is the main focus.
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Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
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William Baldwin
William Joseph Baldwin (born February 21, 1963) Note: While birthplace is routinely listed as Massapequa, that town has no hospital, and brother Alec Baldwin was born in nearby Amityville, which does.
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William L. DeAndrea
William Louis DeAndrea (July 1, 1952 - October 9, 1996) was an American mystery writer and columnist.
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World war
A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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1827 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1827.
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