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Satire and Mystery Fiction

Genres built on a puzzle to be solved or a target to be mocked: detective fiction's investigative plot, absurdist fiction's illogical or meaningless premise played for unease or comedy, and satire's direct mockery of a real subject through exaggeration. Belongs here: a genre whose defining device is investigation, absurdity or ridicule. Does not belong here: comedy in its classical dramatic sense, tracked under dramatic genres above, even where a work in this group is also comic in tone.

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Satire and Mystery Fiction

Absurdist Fiction

Satire and Mystery Fiction
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Airport Novel

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Caper Story

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Carnivalesque

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Chernukha

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City Mysteries

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Conspiracy Fiction

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Cozy Mystery

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Crime Fiction

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Dangibon

Satire and Mystery Fiction

Detective Fiction

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Dime Novel

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Domestic Noir

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Drinkers Mass

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Estate Satire

Satire and Mystery Fiction

Fabliau

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Financial Thriller

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Fool's Literature

Satire and Mystery Fiction

Fratire

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Girl Detective

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Gong'an Fiction

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Hardboiled

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Historical Mystery

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Inverted Detective Story

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Kokkeibon

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Legal Thriller

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Libel

Satire and Mystery Fiction

Locked-Room Mystery

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Menippean Satire

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Mock-Heroic

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Mystery Fiction

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Newgate Novel

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News Satire

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Noir Fiction

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Nordic Noir

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Parody

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Pasquinade

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Penny Dreadful

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Police Procedural

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Political Satire

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Political Thriller

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Procedural Drama

Satire and Mystery Fiction

Psychological Thriller

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Religious Satire

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Satire

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Sensation Novel

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Sharebon

Satire and Mystery Fiction

Spy Fiction

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Tart Noir

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Tartan Noir

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Techno-thriller

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Thriller

Satire and Mystery Fiction
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Travesty

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Whodunit

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Whore Dialogues

Satire and Mystery Fiction
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