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Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.
The Adventure of the Empty House, 1903. Arsène Lupin in The Crystal Stopper (1912) Crime fiction is a typically 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century genre, dominated by British and American writers. This article explores its historical development as a genre.
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained ...
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. The Golden Age proper is in practice usually taken to refer to a type of fiction which was predominant in the 1920s and 1930s but had been written since at least 1911 and is still being ...
Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction).
Esistono altre possibili classificazioni del genere poliziesco, fra queste quella fornita dal critico bulgaro Cvetan Todorov, per il quale nella detective fiction esistono 3 principali sottogeneri fra loro correlati: Whodunit (il classico giallo deduttivo) Thriller; Suspense
Historical mystery. Locked-room mystery. References. External links. Mystery fiction. Cover of the pulp mystery-fiction magazine Mystery (January 1934) Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. [1] .
