The Detective Novel (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Origins
The detective story is a special branch of crime fiction that focuses attention on the examination of evidence that will lead to the solution of the mystery. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first printed use of the noun “detective” in the year 1843. The term had become established in the language because of the formation of the first detective bureaus, the original of which was the Bow Street Runners, a group of detective- policemen organized by Henry Fielding and John Fielding in their capacities as magistrates in London. The Runners operated out...
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