The rise and fall of the detective novel.

Contemporary Review | April 1, 1998| | Copyright

IN this day and age of the crime novel, the who-dunnit, the detective hero; when half the novels, plays and T,V programmes (or so it seems) consist of the genre; when Agatha Christie's lucubrations run for years in the West End, and spatter the TV programmes; and when a whole clutch of fiction purveyors have made their names and fortunes by turning out nothing else, it is interesting and instructive to look back and trace the origins of such a state of affairs.

The first essays in the art of deduction and ratiocination per se must go to the French. As early as the 18th ...

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