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The Simple Art of Murder

Index The Simple Art of Murder

The Simple Art of Murder is hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler's critical essay, a magazine article, and his collection of short stories. [1]

41 relations: A. A. Milne, Agatha Christie, American English, Arthur Conan Doyle, Boris Artzybasheff, Crime fiction, Curare, Dashiell Hammett, Detective fiction, Dorothy L. Sayers, Duelling pistol, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Essay, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, Freeman Wills Crofts, Geraldine McEwan, Golden Age of Detective Fiction, Hardboiled, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, James Fenimore Cooper, Leatherstocking Tales, Literary criticism, Literature, Mark Twain, Miss Marple, Modernity, Murder, Random House, Raymond Chandler, Realism (arts), Saturday Review (U.S. magazine), Short story, Television film, The Atlantic, The Big Sleep, The Murder at the Vicarage, The New York Review of Books, The Red House Mystery, Tropical fish, University of Texas at Austin, 1950 in literature.

A. A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems.

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Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.

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American English

American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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Boris Artzybasheff

Boris Artzybasheff (Борис Арцыбашев, 25 May 1899, Kharkov, Russian Empire — 16 July 1965) was an American illustrator of Russian origin active in the United States, notable for his strongly worked and often surreal designs.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.

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Curare

Curare or is a common name for various plant extract alkaloid arrow poisons originating from Central and South America.

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist.

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Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer and poet.

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Duelling pistol

A duelling pistol is a type of pistol that was manufactured in matching pairs to be used in a duel, when duels were customary.

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument — but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.

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Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" is an 1895 essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper.

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Freeman Wills Crofts

Freeman Wills Crofts FRSA (1 June 1879 – 11 April 1957) was an Anglo-Irish mystery author during the golden age of detective fiction.

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Geraldine McEwan

Geraldine McEwan (born Geraldine McKeown; 9 May 1932 – 30 January 2015) was an English actress who had a long career in theatre, television and film.

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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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Hardboiled

Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective stories).

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States.

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James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century.

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Leatherstocking Tales

The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, set in the eighteenth century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in central New York.

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Literary criticism

Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Miss Marple

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in 12 of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in 20 short stories.

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Modernity

Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era), as well as the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of Renaissance, in the "Age of Reason" of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century "Enlightenment".

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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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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Realism (arts)

Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.

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Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)

Saturday Review, previously The Saturday Review of Literature, was an American weekly magazine established in 1924.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Big Sleep

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

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The Murder at the Vicarage

The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The Red House Mystery

The Red House Mystery is a "locked room" whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922.

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Tropical fish

Tropical fish are generally those fish found in aquatic tropical environments around the world, including both freshwater and saltwater species.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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1950 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1950.

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

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