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Crime Fiction came to be recognised as a distinct literary genre, with specialist writers and a devoted readership, in the 19th century.Earlier novels and stories were typically devoid of systematic attempts at detection: There was a detective, whether amateur or professional, trying to figure out how and by whom a particular crime was committed; there were no police trying to solve a case ...
Cadfael – early 12th-century monk solves murders and social problems, created by Ellis Peters, also known as Edith Pargeter. Jonathan Creek – creative consultant to a magician, in a British TV series by the same name, written by David Renwick. Nancy Drew – High school sleuth, created by Edward Stratemeyer.
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [32] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...
Films are listed according to the decade in which the depicted crime occurred, rather than by the film's date of release. This page includes "crimes" where the "criminal" was later exonerated. This page includes suicides or other deaths which have been deemed to be suspicious by some and have therefore become the subject of conspiracy theories.
The locked room mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime—almost always murder—is committed under circumstances which it was seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime and/or evade detection in the course of getting in and out of the crime scene. The genre was established in the 19th century.
This is a chronological list of crime films split by decade. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between Crime and other genres (including, action , thriller , and drama films ); the list should attempt to document films which are more closely related to crime, even if it bends genres.
A mystery film is a genre of film revolving around the solution to a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of a protagonist to solve the mystery by means of clues, investigation, and deduction. This is a list of mystery films by decade.
Crime drama, Gangster film 1928: The Big City: Tod Browning: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Betty Compson: United States: The Dragnet: Josef von Sternberg, Helen Lewis: George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell: United States: Crime drama Ladies of the Mob: William Wellman: Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Helen Lynch, Carl Gerard: United States ...