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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Detective Fiction : Contemporary Chinese Culture
326 words, approx. 1 pages (zhentao xiaoshuo) Detective fiction (zhentan xiaoshuo) presents a mystery, usually the investigation of a murder or other crime by the police. This genre is also called ‘ratiocinative fiction’ (tuili xiashuo). The works of Edgar Allan Poe... summary from source:
 Detective Fiction Summary
2,815 words, approx. 9 pages Mysteries and their solutions have always been used in fiction, but detective fiction as a recognisable genre first appeared in the mid-nineteenth century. Despite detective fiction becoming one of the most popular of literary genres of the twentieth... summary from source:
 Detective fiction Information
4,499 words, approx. 15 pages
Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centers upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. Detective fiction is the most popular form of both mystery fiction and hardboiled crime... 
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 The Journal of Economic Education Economics as detective fiction.
09/22/2002: 5,032 words, approx. 17 pages Abstract: Almost all good economic analysis is structured like classical detective fiction. This relationship goes well beyond the obvious fact that both detective fiction and economic analysis involve puzzles. The economist's epistemology, presented in the form of scientific narratives, runs parallel to the... summary from source:
Southern Medical Journal Physicians as detectives in detective fiction of the 20th century.
10/01/2002: 4,534 words, approx. 15 pages ABSTRACT Background. Surprisingly few detectives are physicians in 20th-century detective fiction. Methods. Potential books with physician-detective characters were located by pursuing all mentions of characters referred to as "Doctor" in any of several reference materials pertaining to mystery and detective fiction.... summary from source:
 AP News Solved: Poe mystery awards are announced
5/1/2007: 303 words, approx. 1 pagesWhich work won a 2007 Edgar Allan Poe award for best play? Elementary, my dear reader! It was "Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure," by Steven Dietz.That wasn't the only Edgar award winner with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective in the title. E.J. Wagner's nonfiction... summary from source:
The New York Observer Midnight to Sunrise With Murakami
5/15/2007: 579 words, approx. 2 pagesAFTER DARKBy Haruki Murakami Alfred A. Knopf, 191 pages, $22.95 Haruki Murakami works wonders with daytime. In the Japanese novelist’s very best books—Dance Dance Dance (1988) and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994)—un- or semi-employed protagonists discover that, when the rest of us are stuck at...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Ronald R. Thomas
23,121 words, approx. 77 pages
In the following excerpt, Thomas illustrates the similarities and connections between the investigative techniques employed by detectives in nineteenth-century literature and Freudian methods and theories of dreams and the unconscious.
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Critical Essay by Dorothy L. Sayers
14,611 words, approx. 49 pages
In the following essay, originally published in 1928 as the introduction to the anthology Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror (published in the U.S. as the first Omnibus of Crime, 1929), Sayers provides an overview of the history and major developments of the crime-mystery-detective story.
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Critical Essay by Erin A. Smith
13,228 words, approx. 44 pages
In the following essay, Smith investigates the pulp magazines, such as Black Mask, that developed the hard-boiled detective story.
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