Home›Detective and Crime Fiction›Original Language›EnglishBrowse ByEnglishOriginal language names the language a literary work was first written in, before any translation. Pride and Prejudice, a novel "by English author Jane Austen," was written and first published in English. This dimension groups works that a visitor could read in their original form using the same language.FactsEnglishSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1850 1EnglishFilter Results27 entriesGenreAllConspiracy Fiction (1)Crime Fiction (9)Detective Fiction (12)Epistolary Novel (1)Gothic Fiction (3)Hardboiled (2)Horror Fiction (2)Mystery Fiction (8)Political Thriller (1)Psychological Horror (1)Psychological Thriller (1)Romance Novel (1)Sensation Novel (1)Short Fiction (1)The Novel (2)AuthorAllAgatha Christie (4)Alexander McCall Smith (1)Arthur Conan Doyle (3)Dan Brown (1)Daphne du Maurier (1)Dashiell Hammett (2)Dorothy L. Sayers (1)Edgar Allan Poe (1)Jim Thompson (1)Jo Nesbø (1)Mario Puzo (1)Mark Twain (1)Patricia Highsmith (1)Qiu Xiaolong (1)Raymond Chandler (2)Richard Condon (1)Stephen King (1)Thomas Harris (1)Wilkie Collins (2)Composition YearAll1841 (1)1859 (1)1868 (1)1887 (1)1896 (1)1902 (1)1915 (1)1926 (1)1929 (1)1934 (3)1936 (1)1938 (1)1939 (2)1951 (1)1952 (1)1953 (1)1955 (1)1959 (1)1969 (1)1978 (1)1988 (1)1989 (1)1998 (1)2000 (1)2003 (1)Country of OriginAllChina (1)United Kingdom (14)United States (14)AudienceAllChildren's (6)General (21)AwardAllAnthony Award for Best First Novel (1)Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (1)British Book Award (1)Edgar Award (1)Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (1)Rusty Dagger Award (1)Setting Country or PlaceAllEngland (1)Los Angeles (1)Yugoslavia (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 27A Study in ScarletEnglishAnd Then There Were NoneEnglishDeath of a Red HeroineEnglishDolan's CadillacEnglishMurder on the Orient ExpressEnglishRebeccaEnglishThe ABC MurdersEnglishThe Big SleepEnglishThe Da Vinci CodeEnglishThe GodfatherEnglishThe Hound of the BaskervillesEnglishThe Killer Inside MeEnglishThe Long GoodbyeEnglishThe Maltese FalconEnglishThe Manchurian CandidateEnglishThe MoonstoneEnglishThe Murder of Roger AckroydEnglishThe Murders in the Rue MorgueEnglishThe Nine TailorsEnglishThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective AgencyEnglishThe Silence of the LambsEnglishThe SnowmanEnglishThe Talented Mr. RipleyEnglishThe Thin ManEnglishThe Valley of FearEnglishThe Woman in WhiteEnglishTom Sawyer, DetectiveEnglishSources1. Detective fiction (Wikipedia)Detective fiction, lead section, genre origin sentenceQuote, Detective fiction, lead section, genre origin sentenceThe 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.Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.