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The Beginnings 1841
Sherlock Holmes 1887
Golden Age 1920s
Private Eye 1930s-1940s
Post world war 2 1945
Edgar Allen Poe The Beginnings1841
Charles Dickens The Beginnings1841
Sir Arthus Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Era1887
Agatha Christie The Golden Age1920s
Dorothy Sayers The golden age1920s
Mary Higgins clark, Joan Lowery Nixon, Lois Duncan Post World war 2
Who wrote the first mystery story and what was it called? Edgar Allen Poe The Murder in the Rue Morgue
What is locked room style? a style were a murder is commited and someone did no one could get in or out. Or it is where like a situation where the question is how did they get in there?
Allen Lane 1935: Obtained rights to published hardcover books and created a paperback line called Penguins Helped bring mysteries, as well as other fiction, to the public
What is PULP Rise of popular magazines in 1920s Black Mask eventually devoted entirely to detective fiction established a revolutionary direction for the detective story”Reflected the reality of life in America at the time Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade were popular detectives

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