Mark Twain (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Contribution
Mark Twain is best known as the author of the quintessentially American novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the work from which, in Ernest Hemingway’s judgment, all modern American writing derives and in which neither mystery nor detection plays any significant role. Of the novel’s two murders, one, Pap Finn’s, is quickly disposed of in the final page and the other, Huck’s feigning his own death, is, for all the brilliance of the plan and the...
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