O. Henry (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
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According to Dorothy L. Sayers, surprise is a hallmark of mystery and detective fiction and the setting forth of riddles to be solved is the chief business of an author in the genre. In this sense, almost all the nearly three hundred stories that O. Henry wrote might broadly be labeled “mysteries,” though there is also a narrower selection (several per volume of short stories, and nearly all of Cabbages and Kings, 1904, and The Gentle Grafter, 1908) that are more obviously...
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