Detective novels

Late 1900-century and early 2000-century Classical detective novel Hardboiled crime novel

Late 1900-century Edgar Allan Poe - Murders in the Rue Morgue’, 1841 Arthur Conan Doyle- A Study in Scarlett, 1887

Classical detective novels Agatha Christie – The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920 Dorothy L. Sayers – Whose Body?, 1923

Classic detective tradition brilliant or at least uncommonly perceptive detective Solving a puzzle – “whodunnit” An English village or country house middle class and aristocracy Cosy Nothing about the contemporary world

Hardboiled crime novels Dashiell Hammett – The Maltesen Falcon, 1929 Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep, 1939

Hardboiled ”Hammett took murder out of the Venetian vase and dropped it into the alley; it doesn’t have to stay there for ever, but it looked like a good idea to get as far as possible from Emily Post’s idea of how a well-bred débutante gnaws a chicken wing”. Violence Working class Focus of character

In conclusion First detective novel in 1841 Classical detective novel Hard-boiled crime novel

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