Monday, February 15, 2016

The Anatomy Of A Detective Story


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"There will be the greatest diversity of detail, but the essential pattern will not differ materially in the novels of this class, because they all have a detective for the central figure and it is their business to tell how he solved the problem presented by a certain crime or group of crimes."

"That, in fact, is the definition of a detective story...".


The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes was one of the fictional detectives mentioned in the article above.



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