SOURCE: Hillerman, Tony. Introduction to The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, edited by Tony Hillerman, pp. xiv-xviii. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
In the following essay, Hillerman provides a brief overview of the development of the crime-mystery-detective story over the course of the twentieth century.
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