Contemporary Review, April 1st, 1998
Crime essays were first written by French Chevalier de Mailly in the early 18th century with his book 'Le Voyage et les Aventures des Trois Princes de Serendip.' He was soon followed by writers such as Voltaire with his 'Zadig,' Beaumarchais with his 'Le Barbier de Seville' and Edgar Allan Poe, who made the first crime novel. The real detective novel, however, was only written in 1887 with the book 'A Study in Scarlet' by Arthur Conan Doyle, which introduced the character of Sherlock Holmes. IN this day and age of the crime novel, the who-dunnit, the detective hero; when half the novels, play...
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