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Crime fiction didn’t arrive fully formed. It was built book by book, with each writer borrowing a trick, breaking a rule, or inventing a type of character that others quickly copied.
The ten novels and stories below mark some of those turning points. They are arranged by publication date, so you can follow the genre as it moves from gaslit Paris to the modern thriller.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
Edgar Allan Poe’s story appeared in Graham’s Magazine in 1841. It introduced C. Auguste Dupin, an amateur reasoner who solves a brutal double killing in Paris.
Many historians treat it as the first modern detective story. Nearly everything that followed borrowed from its pattern: a puzzling crime, a brilliant investigator, and a narrator who is a little slower than the hero.
The Moonstone (1868)
Wilkie Collins published The Moonstone in serial form in 1868, and it is often called one of the first full length detective novels in English. It follows the theft of a valuable diamond from an English country house.
The book gave the genre several lasting habits. These include a professional detective in Sergeant Cuff, a house full of suspects, and a story told through several narrators.
A Study in Scarlet (1887)
Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes story ran in Beeton’s Christmas Annual…
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