SOURCE: Queen, Ellery. “The Detective Short Story: The First Hundred Years.” In The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Howard Haycraft, pp. 476-91. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946.
In the following essay, Queen provides an overview of the development of the crime-mystery-detective story from the 1840s to the 1940s.
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