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    Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine—both now published by Dell Magazines, a division of Crosstown Publications. The detective fiction...
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    adaptations, films, television productions, and publications had featured the detective, and Guinness World Records lists him as the most portrayed human literary...
    152 KB (16,026 words) - 14:44, 2 November 2024
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    The Lamp of God (1935) (first published as House of Haunts in the Detective Story Magazine in 1935, collected in the short story collection The New Adventures...
    57 KB (6,664 words) - 21:12, 23 October 2024
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    2012, he had signed a deal with 20th Century Fox Television, through The Detective Agency to pursue his own projects. In February 2015, Fox announced that...
    12 KB (671 words) - 01:42, 10 November 2024
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    1911 and is still being written. In his history of the detective story, Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel, the author Julian Symons...
    14 KB (1,717 words) - 23:44, 9 October 2024
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    not personally visit a crime scene or interview witnesses; instead, the detective either reads the story of the crime in a newspaper or has it recounted...
    5 KB (607 words) - 13:01, 28 July 2024
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    stories, Chandler provided insight on the formula for the detective story and how the pulp magazines differed from previous detective stories: The emotional...
    39 KB (4,650 words) - 22:22, 7 November 2024
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    professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre...
    89 KB (9,206 words) - 01:11, 3 November 2024
  • Death and the Compass (category Works originally published in Sur (magazine))
    Appearances are misleading, however. By following what seem to be clues, the detective falls victim to his belief in abstract reason and to the man whom he...
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    the short story, and is generally considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. In addition, he is credited with contributing significantly...
    87 KB (10,168 words) - 08:41, 1 November 2024
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    The Murders in the Rue Morgue (category Works originally published in Graham's Magazine)
    unsympathetic manner as a sort of foil to the detective. Poe also initiates the storytelling device where the detective announces his solution and then explains...
    32 KB (4,052 words) - 05:13, 28 October 2024
  • The Detective Is Already Dead (Japanese: 探偵はもう、死んでいる。, Hepburn: Tantei wa Mō, Shinde Iru., Spanish title: La detective está muerta) is a Japanese light...
    51 KB (3,451 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2024
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    presents crime as a puzzle to be solved through a chain of questions that the detective poses. In a whodunit, however, the audience is given the opportunity...
    17 KB (2,148 words) - 05:38, 11 September 2024
  • by the British writer Edgar Wallace. The novel was serialized in The Detective Magazine, Amalgamated Press, London, July 20, 1923-Oct 1, 1924, in 14 parts...
    3 KB (342 words) - 04:57, 14 August 2024
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    the two distinct genre variations branched into separate magazines; the detective magazines returned to stories predominantly featuring detection or action...
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  • Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (category Works originally published in The Grand Magazine)
    published in issue 539 of the Strand Magazine in November 1935. The story was illustrated by Jack M. Faulks. The detective is Parker Pyne. The Regatta Mystery:...
    5 KB (525 words) - 03:24, 20 October 2023
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    town of Meiringen in Switzerland, below the Reichenbach Falls whence the detective fell to his apparent death in the 1893 story "The Final Problem". The...
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    The Hound of the Baskervilles (category Works originally published in The Strand Magazine)
    writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is...
    45 KB (4,234 words) - 01:47, 11 November 2024
  • Fer-de-Lance, written by Rex Stout. Set in New York, the story introduced the detective genius Nero Wolfe (Edward Arnold) and his assistant Archie Goodwin (Lionel...
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  • is a novella by Ellery Queen that was originally published in the Detective Story Magazine in 1935. Later, it was collected in the short story collection...
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