Fiction organized around the solving of a crime. Belongs here: the founding works of the detective story form. Does not belong here: a work in which a crime occurs but the narrative is not organized around its detection, which stays classed by its own dominant genre instead.
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1. Detective fiction (Wikipedia)
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The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels.
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