Black and detective novel

Crime fiction |DETECTIVE NOVEL origins. Gothic novels, Edgar Allan Poe. |Definition: A novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end.
It is a closed universe with a limited number of suspects all connected somehow to the inicial victim.
It flourished during the “Golden Age” 1920s, 30s, 40s.

Features
•Eccentric detective
• Other source of income other than his work
• An assistant
• Less inteligent local police
• A crime to solve
• Series of clues
• Less likely suspect
• Unmarried detective
• A suspect that appears guilty
• Pressure from the media
• Informants- witnesses
• Specific places to discuss
• Crime bloodless (e.x. poison)No emphasis in the violence of the action.
• Detective no too active or taking risks.

Characters and language:
• Well- educated upper middle
• Upper and middle classes’ speech in gramatical usages and vocabulary.

Settings:
• Country house or Mansion, a hospital, Threatre Company, convent, airplane, colleges and universities, libraries… |Sub-genres |
A WHODUNITor whodunnit: The Mysterious affairs at Styles Agatha Christie. Moonstone Willie Collins. Unnatural Death. Dorothy Sayers
THE LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY : The Murders in the Rue Morgue, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
COZY: Miss Marple by Agatha Christie. Murder, she wrote. American Tv serie starring Angela Lansbury as J Fletcher (mystery novelist)
INVERTED STORY Columbo TV moviesseries.
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