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1. 536 relations: "A" Is for Alibi, "Y" Is for Yesterday, A Clubbable Woman, A Family Affair (novel), A Ghost in the Machine, A Great Deliverance, A Man Lay Dead, A Morbid Taste for Bones, A Study in Scarlet, Aaron Elkins, Abbasid Caliphate, Ace Atkins, Adam Dalgliesh, Adrian Monk, African Americans, Agatha Christie, Age of Enlightenment, Al Capone, Albert Campion, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Alex Delaware, Alexander McCall Smith, Alice Arisugawa, American Mafia, Ancient Greek, And Then There Were None, Anita Blake, Ann Cleeves, Anna Katharine Green, Apocrypha, Archetype, Arthur B. Reeve, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, Attica Locke, Aurora Floyd, Émile Gaboriau, Bao Zheng, Barbara Mertz, Bartholomew Gill, Bible, Billy Wilder, Bimaal, Bimal Kar, Birdman (novel), Black Alley, Black Coffee (play), Black Mask (magazine), Bleak House, Blind Justice (novel), ... Expand index (486 more) » « Shrink index

2. Crime fiction
3. Works about law enforcement

"A" Is for Alibi

"A" Is for Alibi is the first mystery novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series, and was published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1982.

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"Y" Is for Yesterday

"Y" Is for Yesterday is the twenty-fifth and final novel in the "Alphabet" series of mystery novels by Sue Grafton.

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A Clubbable Woman

A Clubbable Woman is a 1970 crime novel by Reginald Hill, the first novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series.

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A Family Affair (novel)

A Family Affair is a Nero Wolfe detective novel published by the Viking Press in 1975.

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A Ghost in the Machine

A Ghost in the Machine is a crime novel written by English writer Caroline Graham and first published by Headline in 2004.

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A Great Deliverance

A Great Deliverance is a book written by Elizabeth George and published by Bantam Books (now owned by Random House) on 1 May 1988 which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 1989.

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A Man Lay Dead

A Man Lay Dead is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1934.

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A Morbid Taste for Bones

A Morbid Taste for Bones is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters set in May 1137.

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A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Aaron Elkins

Aaron Elkins (born July 24, 1935 in Brooklyn) is an American mystery writer.

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Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Ace Atkins

Ace Atkins (born June 28, 1970) is an American journalist and author.

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Adam Dalgliesh

Adam Dalgliesh is a fictional character who is the protagonist of fourteen mystery novels by P. D. James; the first being James's 1962 novel Cover Her Face.

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Adrian Monk

Adrian Monk, portrayed by Tony Shalhoub, is the title character and protagonist of the USA Network television series Monk.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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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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Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

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Al Capone

Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931.

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Albert Campion

Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham.

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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Алексей Николаевич Толстой; – 23 February 1945) was a Russian writer whose works span across many genres, but mainly belonged to science fiction and historical fiction.

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Alex Delaware

Alex Delaware is a literary character created by American writer Jonathan Kellerman.

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Alexander McCall Smith

Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith (born 24 August 1948) is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction.

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Alice Arisugawa

, mainly known by his pseudonym, is a Japanese mystery writer. He is one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing and was the first president of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan from 2000 to 2005. He has also served as part of the selection committee for various literary awards, most notably the Ayukawa Tetsuya Award from 1996 to 1999 and Edogawa Rampo Prize from 2014 to 2017.

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American Mafia

The American Mafia, commonly referred to in North America as the Italian-American Mafia, the Mafia, or the Mob, is a highly organized Italian American criminal society and organized crime group.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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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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Anita Blake

Anita Blake is the title and viewpoint character of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton.

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Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves (born 24 October 1954) is a British mystery crime writer.

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Anna Katharine Green

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist.

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Apocrypha

Apocrypha are biblical or related writings not forming part of the accepted canon of scripture.

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Archetype

The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.

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Arthur B. Reeve

Arthur Benjamin Reeve (October 15, 1880 – August 9, 1936) was an American mystery writer.

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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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Arthur Morrison

Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 – 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for realistic novels, for stories about working-class life in the East End of London, and for detective stories featuring a specific detective, Martin Hewitt.

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Attica Locke

Attica Locke (born 1974 in Houston, Texas) is an American fiction author and writer/producer for television and film.

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Aurora Floyd

Aurora Floyd (1863) is a sensation novel written by the prominent English author Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

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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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Bao Zheng

Bao Zheng (5 March 999 – 3 July 1062), commonly known as Bao Gong, was a Chinese politician during the reign of Emperor Renzong in China's Song Dynasty. During his twenty-five years in civil service, Bao was known for his honesty and uprightness, with actions such as impeaching an uncle of Emperor Renzong's favourite concubine and punishing powerful families.

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Barbara Mertz

Barbara Louise Mertz (September 29, 1927 – August 8, 2013) was an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels.

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Bartholomew Gill

Bartholomew Gill was the pen name of Mark C. McGarrity (July 22, 1943 – July 4, 2002),Gravestone for Mark C. McGarrity/Bartholomew Gill, Newton Cemetery, Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born filmmaker and screenwriter.

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Bimaal

The Bimaal or Bimal, is a sub-clan of the major Dir clan family.

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Bimal Kar

Bimal Kar (19 September 1921 — 26 August 2003) was an Indian writer and novelist who wrote in Bengali.

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Birdman (novel)

Birdman (1999) was the first novel of British crime-writer Mo Hayder.

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Black Alley

Black Alley (1996) is Mickey Spillane's 13th novel featuring tougher-than-thou New York City private investigator Mike Hammer, and the last one he completed before his death in July 2006.

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Black Coffee (play)

Black Coffee is a play by the British crime-fiction author Agatha Christie (1890–1976) which was produced initially in 1930.

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Black Mask (magazine)

Black Mask was a pulp magazine first published in April 1920 by the journalist H. L. Mencken and the drama critic George Jean Nathan.

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Bleak House

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853.

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Blind Justice (novel)

Blind Justice is a 1994 historical mystery novel by Bruce Alexander.

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Bluebird, Bluebird

Bluebird, Bluebird is a 2017 novel by Attica Locke.

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Bombshell (slang)

The term bombshell is a forerunner to the term "sex symbol" used to describe popular women regarded as very attractive.

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Books of Blood

Books of Blood is a series of six horror fiction anthologies collecting original stories written by British author, playwright, and filmmaker Clive Barker in 1984 and 1985.

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Boris Akunin

Grigori Chkhartishvili (Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili; გრიგორი ჩხარტიშვილი), better known by his pen name Boris Akunin (Борис Акунин, born 20 May 1956), is a Georgian-Russian writer residing in the United Kingdom.

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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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Brother Cadfael's Penance

Brother Cadfael's Penance is a medieval mystery novel set in the autumn of 1145 by Ellis Peters.

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Bruce Alexander Cook

Bruce Alexander Cook (1932 – November 9, 2003) was an American journalist and author who also wrote under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander, creating historical novels about a blind 18th-century Englishman and also a 20th-century Mexican-American detective.

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Busman's Honeymoon

Busman's Honeymoon is a 1937 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her eleventh and last featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and her fourth and last to feature Harriet Vane.

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Byomkesh Bakshi

Byomkesh Bakshi is an Indian-Bengali fictional detective created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.

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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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Cadfael

Brother Cadfael is the main fictional character in a series of historical murder mysteries written between 1977 and 1994 by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter under the name Ellis Peters.

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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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Caroline Graham (writer)

Caroline Graham (born 17 July 1931) is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist.

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Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Carolyn Heilbrun (Gold; January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003) was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies.

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Carolyn Keene

Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

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Carroll John Daly

Carroll John Daly (1889–1958) was a writer of crime fiction.

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Case Closed

Case Closed, also known as, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama.

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Case Histories

Case Histories (2004) is a detective novel by British author Kate Atkinson and is set in Cambridge, England.

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Cat of Many Tails

Cat of Many Tails is a novel that was published in 1949 by Ellery Queen.

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Cecil Street

Cecil John Charles Street (3 May 1884 – 8 December 1964), better known as John Street, was a major in the British Army and a crime fiction novelist.

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Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee

Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (lit. "Cases of Judge Dee"), also known as Di Gong An or Dee Goong An, is an 18th-century Chinese gong'an detective novel by an anonymous author, "Buti zhuanren" (Chinese: 不题撰人).

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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832.

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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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Charles Warren Adams

Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903) was an English lawyer, publisher and anti-vivisectionist, now known from documentary evidence to have been the author of The Notting Hill Mystery.

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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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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Christopher G. Moore

Christopher G. Moore (born 8 July 1952) is a Canadian writer of twenty-seven novels, six works of non-fiction, editor of three anthologies, and author of four radio dramas.

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Climax (narrative)

The climax or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given.

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Clive Barker

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English novelist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer.

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Closed circle of suspects

The closed circle of suspects is a common element of detective fiction, and the subgenre that employs it can be referred to as the closed circle mystery.

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Colin Dexter

Norman Colin Dexter (29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English crime writer known for his Inspector Morse series of novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, Inspector Morse, from 1987 to 2000.

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Conservative Judaism

Conservative Judaism, also known as Masorti Judaism (translit), is a Jewish religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition as emanating primarily from the assent of the people through the generations, more than from divine revelation.

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Cormoran Strike

Cormoran Strike is a series of crime fiction novels written by British author J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

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Cover Her Face

Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. D. James.

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Craig Kennedy

Professor Craig Kennedy is a fictional detective created by Arthur B. Reeve.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲɪje) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder. Detective fiction and crime fiction are literary genres.

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Crime scene

A crime scene is any location that may be associated with a committed crime.

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Criminal investigation

Criminal investigation is an applied science that involves the study of facts that are then used to inform criminal trials.

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Curse

A curse (also called an imprecation, malediction, execration, malison, anathema, or commination) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object.

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Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1975 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year, selling for $7.95.

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Cybercrime

Cybercrime encompasses a wide range of criminal activities that are carried out using digital devices and/or networks.

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Daemon (novel)

Daemon is a 2006 novel by Daniel Suarez about a distributed persistent computer application that begins to change the real world after its original programmer's death.

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Dalziel and Pascoe

Detective Superintendent Andrew "Andy" Dalziel and Detective Sergeant, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill.

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Daniel (biblical figure)

Daniel (Aramaic and lit; translit-std) is the main character of the Book of Daniel.

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Daniel Suarez (author)

Daniel Suarez (born December 21, 1964) is an American novelist, writing principally in the science fiction and techno-thriller genres.

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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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Dave Robicheaux

Dave Robicheaux (pronounced "ROW-bih-show") is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels by American crime writer James Lee Burke.

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David Roberts (novelist)

David Roberts is an English editor and novelist.

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Death of a Red Heroine

Death of a Red Heroine is a mystery novel written by Qiu Xiaolong and was published in English in 2000.

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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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Deductive reasoning

Deductive reasoning is the process of drawing valid inferences.

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Demon

A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity.

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Detective

A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency.

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Di Renjie

Di Renjie (630 – November 11, 704), courtesy name Huaiying (懷英), formally Duke Wenhui of Liang (梁文惠公), was a Chinese politician of the Tang and Wu Zhou dynasties, twice serving as chancellor during the reign of Wu Zetian.

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Dirk Gently

Dirk Gently (born Svlad Cjelli, also known as Dirk Cjelli) is a fictional character created by English writer Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and The Salmon of Doubt.

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by English writer Douglas Adams, published in 1987.

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Don Winslow

Don Winslow (born October 31, 1953) is an American author best known for his crime novels including Savages, The Force and the Cartel Trilogy.

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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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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG).

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Dr. Lancelot Priestley

Dr.

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Dr. Tony Hill

Dr Anthony ‘Tony’ Valentine Hill is a fictional character created by Scottish crime writer Val McDermid.

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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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Edith Pargeter

Edith Mary Pargeter (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her pen name Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics.

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956), who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was an English novelist and humorist, and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.

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Edogawa Ranpo

, better known by the pen name, was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction.

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Edwy Searles Brooks

Edwy Searles Brooks (11 November 1889 – 2 December 1965) was a British novelist who also wrote under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross.

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Elizabeth Daly

Elizabeth T. Daly (October 15, 1878 – September 2, 1967) was an American writer of mystery novels whose main character, Henry Gamadge, was a bookish author, bibliophile, and amateur detective.

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Elizabeth George

Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949) is an American writer of mystery novels set in Great Britain.

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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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English country house

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.

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Erast Fandorin

Erast Petrovich Fandorin (Эраст Петрович Фандорин) is a fictional 19th-century Russian detective and the hero of a series of Russian historical detective novels by Boris Akunin.

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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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Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories.

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Ernest Mandel

Ernest Ezra Mandel (also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter (5 April 1923 – 20 July 1995), was a Belgian Marxian economist, Trotskyist activist and theorist, and Holocaust survivor. He fought in the underground resistance against the Nazis during the occupation of Belgium.

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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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Everyman

The everyman is a stock character of fiction.

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Evidence

Evidence for a proposition is what supports the proposition.

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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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Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins

Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is a fictional character created by the American novelist Walter Mosley.

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Faceless Killers

Faceless Killers (Swedish: Mördare utan ansikte) is a 1991 crime novel by the Swedish writer Henning Mankell, and the first in his acclaimed Wallander series.

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Father Brown

Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective.

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Faye Kellerman

Faye Marder Kellerman (born July 31, 1952) is an American writer of mystery novels, in particular the "Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus" series, as well as three nonseries books, The Quality of Mercy, Moon Music, and Straight into Darkness.

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Feluda

Feluda is a fictional detective, private investigator created by Indian director and writer Satyajit Ray.

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Feludar Goendagiri

Feludar Goendagiri (English title: Danger in Darjeeling) is a short story written by Satyajit Ray featuring private detective Feluda.

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Fer-de-Lance (novel)

Fer-de-Lance is the first Nero Wolfe detective novel written by Rex Stout, published in 1934 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.

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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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Friday the Rabbi Slept Late

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late is a 1964 mystery novel by Harry Kemelman, the first of the successful Rabbi Small series.

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From Doon with Death

From Doon with Death was the debut novel of British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1964.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Ѳедоръ Михайловичъ Достоевскій.|Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy|p.

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G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.

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Gallows View

Gallows View is the first novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series of novels.

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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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George Gideon

Superintendent/Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard is a fictional policeman who appeared in 26 police procedural novels, 21 of which were written by John Creasey under the pseudonym J.J. Marric, and published between 1955 and 1976.

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George Hamilton Teed

George Hamilton Teed (9 December 1886 – 24 December 1938) was a Canadian author who also wrote under the pen-names G. H. Teed, Hamilton Teed, Louis Brittany, Peter Kingsland, and Desmond Reid.

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George Randolph Hearst III

George Randolph Hearst III (born 1955) is the publisher and CEO of the Times Union newspaper in Albany, New York, a director of the Hearst Corporation and a member of the wealthy Hearst family.

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Georges Simenon

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret.

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Ghost

In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living.

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Ghostwriter

A ghostwriter is a person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are putatively credited to another person as the author.

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Gideon Fell

Dr.

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Gideon's Day

Gideon's Day is the first in a series of police procedural novels by John Creasey writing as J.J. Marric.

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Golden Age of Detective Fiction

The Golden Age of Detective Fiction was an era of classic murder mystery novels of similar patterns and styles, predominantly in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Gong'an fiction

Gong'an or crime-case fiction is a subgenre of Chinese crime fiction involving government magistrates who solve criminal cases. Detective fiction and Gong'an fiction are crime fiction, film genres and literary genres.

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Gosho Aoyama

is a Japanese manga artist best known for his manga series Case Closed (Detective Conan, 1994–present).

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Grazia Verasani

Grazia Verasani (born July 8, 1964, Bologna, Italy) is an Italian writer and singer-songwriter.

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Guilty Pleasures (novel)

Guilty Pleasures is a 1993 horror and mystery novel by American writer Laurell K. Hamilton.

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H. R. F. Keating

Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID.

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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). Detective fiction and Hardboiled are crime fiction.

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Harper (film)

Harper (released in the United Kingdom as The Moving Target) is a 1966 American mystery thriller film directed by Jack Smight from a screenplay by William Goldman, based on the 1949 novel The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald.

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Harry Blyth

Henry Thomas Blyth (1852–1898) was a British writer who also wrote under the pen-name Hal Meredith.

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Harry Bosch

Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is a fictional character created by American author Michael Connelly.

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Harry D'Amour

Harry D'Amour is a fictional occult detective created by author, filmmaker, and artist Clive Barker.

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Harry Devlin (fictional detective)

Harry Devlin is a fictional detective created by the British crime writer Martin Edwards.

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Harry Kemelman

Harry Kemelman (November 24, 1908 – December 15, 1996) was an American mystery writer and a professor of English.

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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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Hawkshaw the Detective

Hawkshaw the Detective was a comic strip character featured in an eponymous cartoon serial by Gus Mager from February 23, 1913, to November 12, 1922, and again from December 13, 1931, to 1952.

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Hemendra Kumar Roy

Hemendra Kumar Roy (2 September 1888 – 18 April 1963) was an Indian Bengali writer noted for his contribution to the early development of the genre of children's literature in the language.

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Henning Mankell

Henning Georg Mankell (3February 19485October 2015) was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.

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Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie.

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Hergé

Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé, from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG, was a Belgian comic strip artist.

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Historical mystery

The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction. Detective fiction and historical mystery are literary genres.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare.

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Humayun Ahmed

Humayun Ahmed (ɦumaiyun aɦmed; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and academic.

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I, the Jury

I, the Jury is the 1947 debut novel of American crime fiction writer Mickey Spillane, the first work to feature private investigator Mike Hammer.

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Ian Rankin

Sir Ian James Rankin (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer and philanthropist, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.

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Ibn-e-Safi

Ibn-e-Safi (26 July 1928 – 26 July 1980) (also spelled as Ibne Safi) (ابنِ صفی) was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad (اسرار احمد), a fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan.

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Imagery

Imagery is visual symbolism, or figurative language that evokes a mental image or other kinds of sense impressions, especially in a literary work, but also in other activities such as psychotherapy.

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Imran series

The Imran Series (Urdu عمران سیریز) is an Urdu spy fiction novel series created by Pakistani writer Ibn-e-Safi.

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Indemnity Only

Indemnity Only is a mystery novel written by Sara Paretsky.

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Inspector Alan Banks

Detective Superintendent Alan Banks (born 1958) is the fictional protagonist in a series of crime novels by Peter Robinson.

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Inspector Ghote

Inspector Ganesh Ghote (pronounced GO-tay) is a fictional police officer who is the main character in H. R. F. Keating's detective novels.

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Inspector Morse

Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, GM, is the eponymous fictional character in the series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter.

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Inspector Wexford

Chief Inspector Reginald "Reg" Wexford is a recurring character in a series of detective novels by English crime writer Ruth Rendell.

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Intelligence

Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

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Inverted detective story

An inverted detective story, also known as a "howcatchem", is a murder mystery fiction structure in which the commission of the crime is shown or described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator.

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Ishtiaq Ahmad (fiction writer)

Ishtiaq Ahmad (اﺸﺘﻴﺎﻖ اﺤﻤﺩ in Urdu), (1944 – 17 November 2015) was a Pakistani fiction writer famous for his spy and detective novels in the Urdu language, particularly the Inspector Jamshaid series.

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J. A. Jance

Judith Ann (J. A.) Jance (born October 27, 1944) is an American author of mystery novels.

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name, is a British author and philanthropist.

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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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Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher is the protagonist of a series of crime thriller novels by British author Lee Child, a 2012 film adaptation, its 2016 sequel, and a television series on Amazon Prime Video.

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Jakher Dhan

Jakher Dhan is a Bengali adventure thriller film directed by Haricharan Bhanja based on a same name novel of Hemendra Kumar Roy.

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James Hadley Chase

James Hadley Chase (24 December 1906 – 6 February 1985) was an English writer.

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James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series.

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Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich (née Schneider; April 22, 1943) is an American writer.

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Jasoosi Dunya

Jasoosi Dunya (Urdu: جاسوسى دنيا) is a popular series of Urdu detective stories created by Ibne-Safi.

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Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is an English novelist whose first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001.

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Jayanta

Jayanta (lit)), is a character who appears in Hindu literature. He is the son of Indra, the king of the devas (gods), and his wife, Shachi (Indrani). He has a sister called Jayanti. He appears in various Hindu scriptures, fighting in wars on behalf of the devas. Jayanta also appears in the epic Ramayana and other lore, in which he disguises himself as a crow.

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Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery and crime writer.

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Jeffrey Archer

Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English novelist and former politician.

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Jerry Cornelius

Jerry Cornelius is a fictional character created by English author Michael Moorcock.

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Jessica Fletcher

Jessica Beatrice "J.

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Jill Paton Walsh

Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford, (née Bliss; 29 April 1937 – 18 October 2020), known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer.

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Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher (born October 26, 1971) is an American author.

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Jimmy Kudo

, known in some major English adaptations as Jimmy Kudo, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the manga series Case Closed, created by Gosho Aoyama.

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Joe Leaphorn

Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is a fictional character created by the twentieth-century American mystery writer Tony Hillerman.

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John Creasey

John Creasey (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns.

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John D. MacDonald

John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories.

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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 Fielding

Sir John Fielding (16 September 1721 – 4 September 1780) was an English magistrate and social reformer of the 18th century.

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John Grisham

John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8, 1955) is an American novelist, lawyer, and former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, known for his best-selling legal thrillers.

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John Lescroart

John Lescroart (born January 14, 1948) is a ''New York Times'' bestselling author known for his series of legal and crime thriller novels featuring the characters Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt.

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John Rebus

Detective Inspector John Rebus is the protagonist in the Inspector Rebus series of detective novels by the Scottish writer Sir Ian Rankin, ten of which have so far been televised as Rebus.

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John William Staniforth

John William Staniforth (14 November 1863 – 3 January 1927) was a British writer who wrote under the pen-names Stain Cortley, John Andrews and Maxwell Scott.

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Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Seth Kellerman (born August 9, 1949) is an American novelist, psychologist, and Edgar- and Anthony Award–winning author best known for his popular mystery novels featuring the character Alex Delaware, a child psychologist who consults for the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Joseph Bell

Joseph Bell FRCSE (2 December 1837 – 4 October 1911) was a Scottish surgeon and lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century.

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Josephine Tey

Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author.

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Judge Bao fiction

Judge Bao (or Justice Bao (包青天)) stories in literature and performing arts are some of the most popular in traditional Chinese crime fiction (''gong'an'' fiction). Detective fiction and Judge Bao fiction are crime fiction.

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Judge Dee

Judge Dee, or Judge Di, is a semi-fictional character based on the historical figure Di Renjie, county magistrate and statesman of the Tang court.

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Jules Maigret

Jules Maigret, or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("commissioner") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle (Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres), created by writer Georges Simenon.

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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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Kalo Bhramar

Kalo Bhramar (The Black Wasp) is an epic Bengali detective novel.

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Kaoru Kitamura

(born December 28, 1949) is the pen name of, a popular contemporary Japanese writer, mainly of short stories.

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Kate Atkinson (writer)

Kate Atkinson (born 20 December 1951) is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories.

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Kate Fansler

Kate Fansler is the main character in a series of fourteen mystery novels written by Carolyn Gold Heilbrun from 1964 to 2002, under the pseudonym Amanda Cross.

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Kate Perugini

Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini (née Dickens; 29 October 1839 – 9 May 1929) was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Catherine Dickens and Charles Dickens.

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Keigo Higashino

is a Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels.

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Killing Floor (novel)

Killing Floor is the debut novel by Lee Child, first published in 1997 by Putnam.

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Kiriti Roy

Kiriti Roy is a fictional detective of Bengali literature created by Dr.

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Knight

A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity.

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Knots and Crosses

Knots and Crosses (also written Knots & Crosses) is a 1987 crime novel by Ian Rankin.

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Kottayam Pushpanath

Kottayam Pushpanath was an Indian author known for his contributions to detective fiction writing in Malayalam.

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Kurt Wallander

Kurt Wallander is a fictional Swedish police inspector created by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell (1948 – 2015).

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Laius

In Greek mythology, King Laius or Laios (Láïos) of Thebes was a key personage in the Theban founding myth.

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Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell Kaye Hamilton (born February 19, 1963) is an American fantasy and romance writer.

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Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr.

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Lee Child

James Dover Grant (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series.

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Legal case

A legal case is in a general sense a dispute between opposing parties which may be resolved by a court, or by some equivalent legal process.

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Lev Sheinin

Lev Romanovich Sheinin (Russian: Лев Романович Шейнин, 1906–1967) was a Soviet writer, journalist, and NKVD investigator.

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Lew Archer

Lew Archer is a fictional character created by American-Canadian writer Ross Macdonald.

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Light Thickens

Light Thickens is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirty-second, and final, novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1982.

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Linda Fairstein

Linda Fairstein (born May 5, 1947) is an American author, attorney, and former New York City prosecutor focusing on crimes of violence against women and children.

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Lindsey Davis

Lindsey Davis (born 1949) is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of historical crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire.

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Lisa Scottoline

Lisa Scottoline (born July 1, 1955) is an American author of legal thrillers.

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List of Ace mystery double titles

Ace Books published 135 mystery Ace doubles between 1952 and 1965 in dos-a-dos format.

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List of Ace mystery letter-series single titles

Ace Books have published hundreds of mystery titles, starting in 1952.

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List of Ace mystery numeric-series single titles

Ace Books have published hundreds of mystery titles, starting in 1952.

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List of Case Closed characters

The manga series Case Closed, known as in Japan, features a large number of recurring fictional characters created by Gosho Aoyama.

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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 detective fiction authors

This is a list of detective fiction writers.

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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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List of wars and battles involving China

The following is a list of wars and battles involving China, organized by date.

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Literary inquisition

The literary inquisition, also known as speech crime (以言入罪), refers to official persecution of intellectuals for their writings in China.

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Literary realism

Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements. Detective fiction and literary realism are literary genres.

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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. Detective fiction and Locked-room mystery are crime 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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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Lost literary work

A lost literary work (referred throughout this article just as a lost work) is a document, literary work, or piece of multimedia, produced of which no surviving copies are known to exist, meaning it can be known only through reference.

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886).

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Mademoiselle de Scuderi

Mademoiselle de Scuderi.

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Magic in fiction

Magic in fiction is the endowment of characters or objects in works of fiction or fantasy with powers that do not naturally occur in the real world.

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Magic Kaito

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama.

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Maigret and Monsieur Charles

Maigret and Monsieur Charles (French: Maigret et Monsieur Charles) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, and is the last novel featuring his long-running character Jules Maigret.

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Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.

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Maj Sjöwall

Maj Sjöwall (25 September 1935 – 29 April 2020) was a Swedish author and translator.

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Marcia Muller

Marcia Muller (born September 28, 1944) is an American author of mystery and thriller novels.

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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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Marietta Shaginyan

Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan (Мариэ́тта Серге́евна Шагиня́н; Մարիետա Սերգեյի Շահինյան, April 2, 1888 – March 20, 1982) was a Soviet writer, historian and activist of Armenian descent.

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Martin Beck

Martin Beck is a fictional Swedish police detective and the main character in a series of ten novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, collectively titled The Story of a Crime.

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Martin Edwards (author)

Kenneth Martin Edwards (born 7 July 1955) is a British crime novelist, whose work has won multiple awards including lifetime achievement awards for his fiction, non-fiction, short fiction, and scholarship in the UK and the United States.

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Marvin Heiferman

Marvin Heiferman (born 1948) is an American curator and writer, who originates projects about the impact of photographic images on art, visual culture, and science for museums, art galleries, publishers and corporations.

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era.

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Mary Rogers

Mary Cecilia Rogers (born c. 1820 – found dead July 28, 1841) was an American murder victim whose story became a national sensation.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Matthew Scudder

Matthew (Matt) Scudder is a fictional character who appears in novels by American crime writer Lawrence Block.

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Maurits Hansen

Maurits Christopher Hansen (5 July 1794 – 16 March 1842) was a Norwegian writer.

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Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins (born March 3, 1948) is an American mystery writer, noted for his graphic novels.

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Metta Victor

Metta Victor (Metta Victoria Fuller; March 2, 1831 – June 26, 1885), who used the pen name Seeley Regester among others, was an American novelist, credited with authoring one of the first detective novels in the United States.

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Michael Collins (American author)

Michael Collins is the best-known pseudonym of Dennis Lynds (January 15, 1924 – August 19, 2005), an American author who primarily wrote mystery fiction.

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Michael Connelly

Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller.

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Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English–American writer, particularly of science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction.

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Mickey Spillane

Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, called the "king of pulp fiction".

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Mike Hammer (character)

Michael Hammer is a fictional character created by the American author Mickey Spillane.

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Mike Ripley

Mike Ripley was born in 1952 and is the British author of the award-winning ‘Angel’ series of comedy thrillers as well as a critic and archaeologist.

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Mikhail Zagoskin

Mikhail Nikolayevich Zagoskin (Михаил Николаевич Загоскин,; July 25, 1789 – July 5, 1852) was a Russian writer of social comedies and historical novels.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Misir Ali

Misir Ali (মিসির আলি) is a fictional character in a series of novels by Bangladeshi author Humayun Ahmed.

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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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Miss Silver

Miss Silver is a fictional detective featured in 32 novels by British novelist Patricia Wentworth.

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Mo Hayder

Beatrice Clare Dunkel (born Clare Damaris Bastin; pen names, Mo Hayder and Theo Clare; 2 January 1962 – 27 July 2021) was a British author.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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Monash University

Monash University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Monk (TV series)

Monk is an American comedy-drama detective television series that originally ran on the USA Network from July 12, 2002, to December 4, 2009, with 125 episodes broadcast over eight seasons.

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Monsieur Lecoq

Monsieur Lecoq is the creation of Émile Gaboriau, a 19th-century French writer and journalist.

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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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Monster

A monster is a type of fictional creature found in horror, fantasy, science fiction, folklore, mythology and religion.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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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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Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network.

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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. Detective 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. Detective fiction and mystery film are film genres.

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Mystery Writers of Japan

is an organization for mystery writers in Japan. Detective fiction and mystery Writers of Japan are crime fiction.

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Mystery Writers of Japan Award

The are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of Japan.

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Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew is a fictional character appearing in several mystery book series, movies, video games, and a TV show as a teenage amateur sleuth.

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Navajo

The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.

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Nelson Lee (detective)

Nelson Lee is a fictional detective who featured in the Amalgamated Press papers over a 40-year run.

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Nero Wolfe

Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Ngaio Marsh

Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh (23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand mystery writer and theatre director.

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Nick and Nora Charles

Nick and Nora Charles are fictional characters created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Thin Man.

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Nihar Ranjan Gupta

Nihar Ranjan Gupta (নীহাররঞ্জন গুপ্ত, pen name: Banbhatta (বানভট্ট); 6 June 1911 – 20 February 1986) was an Indian dermatologist and a popular Bengali novelist.

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No Man's Nightingale

No Man's Nightingale is a novel by crime writer Ruth Rendell published in 2013, It featuring her recurring protagonist Inspector Wexford.

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Novel

A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.

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Observation

Observation in the natural sciences is an act or instance of noticing or perceiving and the acquisition of information from a primary source.

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Occult

The occult (from occultus) is a category of esoteric or supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mysticism.

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Oedipus

Oedipus (Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.

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Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Οἰδίπους Τύραννος), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed.

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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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P. D. James

Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer.

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Pager

A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages.

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Parashor Barma

Parashor Barma is a fictional detective character made by Bengali writer Premendra Mitra.

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Patricia Wentworth

Dora Amy Turnbull (formerly Dillon, née Elles; 15 October 1877 – 28 January 1961), known by pen name Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.

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Paul C. Doherty

Paul Charles Dominic Doherty (born 21 September 1946) is an English author, educator, lecturer and historian.

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Paul Collins (American writer)

Paul Collins (born January 12, 1969) is an American writer, editor and Chair of English at Portland State University, in Portland, Oregon.

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Paul Levine

Paul J. Levine (born January 9, 1948) is an American author of crime fiction, particularly legal thrillers.

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Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson (born March 25, 1947) is an American media theorist, novelist, singer-songwriter, and short story writer.

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Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.

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Per Wahlöö

Per Fredrik Wahlöö (5 August 1926 – 22 June 1975) – in English translations often identified as Peter Wahloo – was a Swedish author.

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Perry Mason

Perry Mason is a fictional character, an American criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner.

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Persian literature

Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures.

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Personal digital assistant

A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager.

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Peter Decker

Peter Decker is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels by Faye Kellerman.

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Peter Lovesey

Peter Harmer Lovesey (born 10 September 1936), also known by his pen name Peter Lear, is a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels and short stories.

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Peter Robinson (novelist)

Peter Robinson (17 March 1950 – 4 October 2022) was a British-born Canadian crime writer who was best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks.

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Phil D'Amato

Dr.

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Philip MacDonald

Philip MacDonald (5 November 1900 – 10 December 1980) was a British-born writer of fiction and screenplays, best known for thrillers.

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Philip Marlowe

Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler who was characteristic of the hardboiled crime fiction genre.

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Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.

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Playback (novel)

Playback is a novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe.

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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

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself.

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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. Detective fiction and police procedural are crime fiction.

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Postern of Fate

Postern of Fate is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie that was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1973Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon.

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Premendra Mitra

Premendra Mitra (4 September 1904 – 3 May 1988)Samsad Bengali Charitabhidhan Vol.II edited Anjali Bose, Published by Sagitta Samsad, Kolkata, Edition January,2019,Page-240 was an Indian poet, writer and film director in the Bengali language.

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Private investigator

A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Qiu Xiaolong

Qiu Xiaolong (Chinese pronunciation /tɕʰjoʊː ˌɕjɑʊˈlʊŋ/, American English pronunciation; born Shanghai, China, 1953) is a Shanghai born-American crime novelist, English-language poet, literary translator, critic, and academic, who has lived for many years in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.

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Raven Black

Raven Black is a 2006 novel by Ann Cleeves that won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year.

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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 herring

A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question.

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Reginald Hill

Reginald Charles Hill FRSL (3 April 193612 January 2012) was an English crime writer and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.

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Rennie Airth

Rennie Airth (born 1935) is a South African novelist who currently resides in Italy.

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Reverse chronology

Reverse chronology is a narrative structure and method of storytelling whereby the plot is revealed in reverse order.

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Rex Stout

Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.

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Richard III of England

Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485.

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Rintaro Norizuki

is a Japanese mystery/crime writer.

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Robert B. Parker

Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre.

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Robert Crais

Robert Crais (pronounced) (born June 20, 1953) is an American author of detective fiction and former screenwriter.

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Robert Goldsborough (writer)

Robert Gerald Goldsborough (born October 3, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American journalist and writer of mystery novels.

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Robert van Gulik

Robert Hans van Gulik (9 August 1910 – 24 September 1967) was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician (of the guqin), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.

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Roderick Alleyn

Roderick Alleyn (pronounced "Allen") is a fictional character who first appeared in 1934.

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Roma Sub Rosa

Roma Sub Rosa is a series of historical mystery novels by Steven Saylor set in ancient Rome and therefore populated by famous historic Roman citizens.

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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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Roseanna (novel)

Roseanna is a mystery novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, first published in 1965.

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Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald was the main pseudonym used by the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar (December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983).

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Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) was established in 1729, and is the oldest voluntary hospital in Scotland.

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Russian literature

Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia, its émigrés, and to Russian-language literature.

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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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S. S. Van Dine

S.

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Sam Spade

Sam Spade is a fictional character and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon.

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Sammy Keyes

Sammy Keyes is a series of mystery novels written by Wendelin Van Draanen for children aged 10–16.

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Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the protagonist V. I. Warshawski.

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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer.

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Satyanweshi (novel)

Satyanweshi (lit) also spelled Satyanveshi, is a detective story written by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay featuring the Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi and his friend, assistant, and narrator Ajit Bandyopadhyay.

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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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Scott Turow

Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer.

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Seichō Matsumoto

was a Japanese writer, credited with popularizing detective fiction in Japan.

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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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Sexton Blake

Sexton Blake is a fictional character, a detective who has been featured in many British comic strips, novels and dramatic productions since 1893.

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Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (30 March 1899 – 22 September 1970) was an Indian Bengali-language writer.

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Sherlock (TV series)

Sherlock is a British mystery crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction.

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Sir Henry Merrivale

Sir Henry Merrivale is a fictional amateur detective created by "Carter Dickson", a pen name of John Dickson Carr (1906–1977).

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Sixkill (novel)

Sixkill is the 40th book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series and first published in 2011.

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Sleeping Murder

Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

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Social realism

Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

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Sodom and Gomorrah

In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness.

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Soji Shimada

is a Japanese mystery writer.

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Song dynasty

The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.

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Sophocles

Sophocles (497/496 – winter 406/405 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41.

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Speculative fiction

Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality, instead presenting fantastical, supernatural, futuristic, or other imaginative realms.

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Spenser (character)

Spenser is a fictional private investigator created by the American mystery writer Robert B. Parker.

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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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St Mary Mead

St Mary Mead is a fictional village created by popular crime fiction author Dame Agatha Christie.

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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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Stephanie Plum

Stephanie Plum is a fictional character and the protagonist in a series of novels written by Janet Evanovich.

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Stephen Leather

Stephen Leather (born 25 October 1958) is a British thriller author whose works are published by Hodder & Stoughton.

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Steven Saylor

Steven Saylor (born March 23, 1956) is an American author of historical novels.

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Sue Grafton

Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels.

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Supernatural

Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature.

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Supernatural fiction

Supernatural fiction or supernaturalist fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world. Detective fiction and supernatural fiction are literary genres.

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Susanna (Book of Daniel)

Susanna ("lily"), also called Susanna and the Elders, is a narrative included in the Book of Daniel (as chapter 13) by the Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

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Suspense

Suspense is a state of anxiety or excitement caused by mysteriousness, uncertainty, doubt, or undecidedness.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

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Taku Ashibe

is a Japanese mystery writer.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.

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Tecumseh Fox

Tecumseh Fox is a fictional private detective created by American mystery writer Rex Stout to provide some diversity from his housebound and opinionated rival Nero Wolfe.

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The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place

"The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" is the last of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé.

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The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe.

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The Blessing Way

The Blessing Way is a crime novel by American writer Tony Hillerman, the first in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series.

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The Blue Cross (short story)

"The Blue Cross" is a short story by G. K. Chesterton.

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The Bone Collector (novel)

The Bone Collector is a 1997 thriller novel by American writer Jeffery Deaver.

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The Boxcar Children

The Boxcar Children is a children's book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner and currently published by Penguin Random House.

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The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov (Бра́тья Карама́зовы, Brát'ya Karamázovy), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the last novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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The Cadfael Chronicles

The Cadfael Chronicles is a series of historical murder mysteries written by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter (1913–1995) under the name Ellis Peters.

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The Cavalier's Cup

The Cavalier's Cup is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson.

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The Chalk Circle

The Chalk Circle (sometimes translated The Circle of Chalk), by Li Qianfu, is a Yuan dynasty (1259–1368) Chinese classical zaju verse play and gong'an crime drama, in four acts with a prologue.

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The Continental Op

The Continental Op is a fictional character created by Dashiell Hammett.

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The Crime at Black Dudley

The Crime at Black Dudley, also known in the United States as The Black Dudley Murder, is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1929, in the United Kingdom by Jarrolds, London and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York.

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The Cuckoo's Calling

The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel written by J. K. Rowling, and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

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The Dain Curse

The Dain Curse is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, published in 1929.

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The Daughter of Time

The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England.

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The Deep Blue Good-by

The Deep Blue Good-by is the first of 21 novels in the Travis McGee series by American author John D. MacDonald.

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The Dresden Files

The Dresden Files is a series of contemporary fantasy/mystery novels written by American author Jim Butcher.

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The Drowning Pool

The Drowning Pool is a 1950 mystery novel by American writer Ross Macdonald, then writing under the name John Ross Macdonald (and simply John Macdonald in the UK).

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The Eyre Affair

The Eyre Affair is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001.

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The Final Programme

The Final Programme is a novel by British science fiction and fantasy writer Michael Moorcock.

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The Garin Death Ray

The Garin Death Ray, also known as The Death Box and The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (Гиперболоид инженера Гарина), is a science fiction novel by the noted Russian author Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy written in 1926–1927.

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The Hardy Boys

The Hardy Boys, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in several mystery series for children and teens.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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The Hollow Man (Carr novel)

The Hollow Man (The Three Coffins in the USA) is a 1935 locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, featuring his recurring investigator Gideon Fell.

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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a British crime drama television series that aired on BBC One from 12 March 2001 to 1 June 2008, consisting of six series and 24 episodes.

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The Killings at Badger's Drift

The Killings at Badger's Drift is a mystery novel by English writer Caroline Graham and published by Century in 1987.

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The Last Detective (book)

The Last Detective is a book written by Peter Lovesey and published by Soho Crime (now owned by Penguin Random House) in 1991, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Novel in 1992.

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The Late Scholar

The Late Scholar is the fourth and final Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane detective novel written by Jill Paton Walsh.

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The Leavenworth Case

The Leavenworth Case (1878), subtitled A Lawyer's Story, is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green.

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The Light of Day (Eric Ambler novel)

The Light of Day is a 1962 novel by Eric Ambler.

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The Lonely Silver Rain

The Lonely Silver Rain (1985) is the 21st and final novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald.

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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams.

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The Maltese Falcon (novel)

The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue.

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The Mask of Dimitrios

The Mask of Dimitrios is a 1944 American film noir starring Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, and Victor Francen.

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The Mermaids Singing

The Mermaids Singing (1995) is a crime novel by Scottish author Val McDermid.

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The Mind Readers

The Mind Readers is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1965, in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus, London.

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The Monkey's Raincoat

The Monkey's Raincoat is a 1987 detective novel by Robert Crais.

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The Moonstone

The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins is an 1868 British epistolary novel.

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The Moving Target

The Moving Target is a detective novel by writer Ross Macdonald, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in April 1949.

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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 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 Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by the English author Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870.

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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 New Indian Express

The New Indian Express is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Chennai-based Express Publications.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

The No.

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The Notting Hill Mystery

The Notting Hill Mystery (1862–1863) is an English-language detective novel written under the pseudonym Charles Felix, with illustrations by George du Maurier.

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The Perfect Murder (novel)

The Perfect Murder is a crime novel by H. R. F. Keating.

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The Plague Court Murders

The Plague Court Murders is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, who wrote it under the name of Carter Dickson.

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The Power of the Dog (Winslow novel)

The Power of the Dog is a 2005 crime/thriller novel by American writer Don Winslow, based on the DEA's involvement with the War on Drugs.

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The Private Patient

The Private Patient (2008) is a crime novel by English author P. D. James, the fourteenth and last in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

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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 Roman Hat Mystery

The Roman Hat Mystery is a novel that was written in 1929 by Ellery Queen.

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The Salmon of Doubt

The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time is a posthumous collection of previously published and unpublished material by Douglas Adams.

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The Secret Adversary

The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year.

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The Secret of the Old Clock

The Secret of the Old Clock is the first volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series, written under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.

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The Silence of the Lambs (novel)

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1988 psychological horror crime thriller novel by Thomas Harris.

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The Silver Pigs

The Silver Pigs is a 1989 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the first book in the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series.

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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 Strange Case of Peter the Lett

The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (Pietr-le-Letton) is a 1931 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.

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The Terrorists

The Terrorists (Swedish title: Terroristerna) is a crime novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö; it is the final book in their 10-part detective series revolving around Martin Beck and his team.

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The Thin Man

The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in a condensed version in the December 1933 issue of Redbook.

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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 Ticket-of-Leave Man (play)

The Ticket-of-Leave Man is an 1863 stage melodrama in four acts by the British writer Tom Taylor, based on a French drama, Le Retour de Melun.

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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders is the debut mystery novel of Soji Shimada, a Japanese musician and writer on astrology who is best known as the author of over 100 mystery novels.

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The Tower Treasure

The Tower Treasure is the first volume in the original Hardy Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap.

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The Trail of the Serpent

The Trail of the Serpent is the debut novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, first published in 1860 as Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath.

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The Troubled Man

The Troubled Man (Swedish: Den orolige mannen) is a crime fiction novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring police inspector Kurt Wallander.

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The Winter Queen (novel)

The Winter Queen (Russian: Азазель, Azazel) is the first novel from the Erast Fandorin series of historical detective novels, written by Russian author Boris Akunin.

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The Wire (India)

The Wire is an Indian nonprofit news and opinion website.

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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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Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams

Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794; retitled The Adventures of Caleb Williams; or Things as They Are in 1831, and often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government.

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Thomas Adcock

Thomas Larry Adcock (born May 1, 1947) is a Detroit-born journalist and novelist.

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Thomas Skinner Surr

Thomas Skinner Surr (1770–1847) was an English novelist whose most famous work was A Winter in London (1806).

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Three Blind Mice and Other Stories

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1950.

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Thursday Next

Thursday Next is the protagonist in a series of comic fantasy, alternate history mystery novels by the British author Jasper Fforde.

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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.

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Times Union (Albany)

The Times Union, or Times-Union, is an American daily newspaper, serving the Capital Region of New York.

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Tintin and Alph-Art

Tintin and Alph-Art (Tintin et l'Alph-Art) is the unfinished twenty-fourth and final volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Tintin and the Picaros

Tintin and the Picaros (Tintin et les Picaros) is the twenty-third volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Tintin in the Land of the Soviets

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Tintin au pays des Soviets) is the first volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Tom Barnaby

Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Geoffrey "Tom" Barnaby (born 20 April 1943) is a fictional detective created by English writer Caroline Graham as the protagonist in her Chief Inspector Barnaby novel series and adapted into one of the main characters in the ITV drama Midsomer Murders.

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Tom Taylor

Tom Taylor (19 October 1817 – 12 July 1880) was an English dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of ''Punch'' magazine.

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Tommy and Tuppence

Tommy and Tuppence are two fictional detectives, recurring characters in the work of Agatha Christie.

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Tony Hillerman

Anthony Grove Hillerman (May 27, 1925 – October 26, 2008) was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works, best known for his mystery novels featuring Navajo Nation Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee.

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Travis McGee

Travis McGee is a fictional character, created by American mystery writer John D. MacDonald.

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Trent's Last Case (novel)

Trent's Last Case is a detective novel written by E. C. Bentley and first published in 1913.

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Trope (literature)

A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.

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Urdu

Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.

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Used good

Used goods, also known as secondhand goods, are any item of personal property offered for sale not as new, including metals in any form except coins that are legal tender, but excluding books, magazines, and postage stamps.

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V. I. Warshawski

Victoria Iphigenia "Vic" "V.

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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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Vincent Calvino

Vincent Calvino is a fictional Bangkok-based private eye created by Christopher G. Moore in the Vincent Calvino Private Eye series.

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Vizier

A vizier (wazīr; vazīr) is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the Near East.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (also), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian.

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Walter Mosley

Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction.

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Wendelin Van Draanen

Wendelin Van Draanen (born January 6, 1965) is an American writer of children's and young-adult fiction.

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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. Detective fiction and whodunit are crime fiction and works about law enforcement.

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Whose Body?

Whose Body? is a 1923 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers first published in the UK by T. Fisher Unwin and in the US by Boni & Liveright.

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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 Evans Burton

William Evans Burton (24 September 180410 February 1860) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and publisher who relocated to the United States.

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William Godwin

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.

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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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William Russell (fiction writer)

William Russell (1806–1876) was an English writer in the 19th century, producing works of fiction.

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Willy Corsari

Willy Corsari (26 December 1897 – 11 May 1998) was the stage name and pen name of Wilhelmina Angela Schmidt, a Dutch actor, author and composer.

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Witness for the Prosecution (1957 film)

Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 American legal mystery thriller film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, and Elsa Lanchester.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central 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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Written vernacular Chinese

Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout China.

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Yevgeny Baratynsky

Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (a; 11 July 1844) was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet.

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Yuan dynasty

The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.

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Yukito Ayatsuji

, who writes under his pen name, is a Japanese writer of mystery and horror.

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Zadig

Zadig; or, The Book of Fate (Zadig ou la Destinée; 1747) is a novella and work of philosophical fiction by the Enlightenment writer Voltaire.

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221B Baker Street

221B Baker Street is the London address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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See also

Crime fiction

• Bloody Scotland
• Blue Toad Murder Files
• Bouchercon
• Butler Parker
• Caper story
• Casey, Crime Photographer
• Cement shoes
• Central Division (web series)
• City mysteries
• Cozy mystery
• Crime comedy
• Crime drama
• Crime fiction
• Crime films
• Crime novels
• Detective fiction
• Domestic Noir
• Girl detective (genre)
• Gong'an fiction
• Hardboiled
• History of crime fiction
• Iceberg (short story)
• Joseph Hansen Award
• Judge Bao fiction
• Kara no Shōjo
• Kenyan crime fiction
• Legal thriller
• Locked-room mysteries
• Locked-room mystery
• Mystery Writers of Japan
• Noir fiction
• Nordic noir
• Police procedural
• Police procedural films
• Police procedurals
• Puzzle mystery
• Rogue literature
• Semana Negra
• Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
• Tart Noir
• Tartan Noir
• Whodunit

Works about law enforcement

• A Mother's Ordeal
• Court show
• Detective fiction
• Legal drama
• Legal thrillers
• List of police television dramas
• Man Tracks
• Police Review
• Police procedurals
• Procedural drama
• The Interception
• The Job (police newspaper)
• Trial film
• Uncommon Law
• Whodunit

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_fiction

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