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Pigalev, Sergey. "Mystery fiction in culture: evolution of genre and crisis of cultural paradigm of modernity." Философия и культура, no. 5 (May 2020): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0757.2020.5.33073.

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The subject of this research is the phenomenon of mystery fiction and its evolution in the context of development of sociocultural project of modernity. The latter is viewed as a complex system, which fundamental principles permeate the entire fabrics of European culture, generating such phenomenon as a mystery fiction plot. The analysis of its varieties deepens the understanding of specificity of modernity and mature of crises that has captured it. Hermeneutic analysis allows going beyond the frames of the narrow-disciplinary analysis of the corresponding texts, allowing to determine the inev

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Gerhard, Kristin H. "Mystery and Detective Fiction:." Public Library Quarterly 10, no. 4 (1991): 49–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j118v10n04_05.

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Gouthro, Patricia A. "Women of Mystery." Adult Education Quarterly 64, no. 4 (2014): 356–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741713614549573.

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This article explores the learning pathways of 15 Canadian and American female crime fiction authors. Using a critical feminist perspective, it argues that despite the neoliberal rhetoric of individual choice, as in most careers, there are social-structural factors that create opportunities and barriers for women mystery writers. The article explores the background factors that shape women’s interest in writing crime fiction, considers the challenges that they face in developing their careers, and looks at the supports that may help them to attain success. Despite challenges, there is often in

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GOUIDER, Salsabil. "L’écriture du mystère dans Le Sphinx qui n’a pas de secret d’Oscar Wilde." ALTRALANG Journal 6, no. 1 (2024): 150–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.52919/altralang.v6i1.408.

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ABSTRACT: Writing the mystery is a stylistic exercise that characterizes the short tale “The Sphinx without a secret” by Oscar Wilde. This article offers a study of the different stylistic processes and techniques adopted in the inscription of the mystery which singularizes the romantic adventure of an elusive woman, Lady Alroy and a reasonable man, Lord Murchison. Wilde's use of several language tools and the mise en abyme in the narration is the factor behind the intrusion of this mystery which not only arouses the curiosity of the hero and the reader because of the fabulous image of this wo

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Guarneri, Dr Cristina. "Thematic, Formal, and Ideological Aspects of Literary Fiction: The Rise of Detective Fiction." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 10, no. 1 (2025): 062–71. https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.101.7.

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From ancient Greece on, fictional narratives have entailed deciphering mystery. At almost the same period as the detective branch of the Metropolitan Police was evolving, the genre of detective fiction was also emerging, mainly in the short-story form. In these stories, a mystery or a crime occurs, and an amateur or professional detective is called in to solve it. The first modern detective story is often thought to be Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, which first introduced the golden age of detective stories, and the world to private detectives, that would later Conan Doyle’s

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Guarneri, Dr Cristina. "THEMATIC, FORMAL, AND IDEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF LITERARY FICTION : THE RISE OF DETECTIVE FICTION." JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 12, no. 01 (2025): 06–21. https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2025.12102.

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From ancient Greece on, fictional narratives have entailed deciphering mystery. At almost the same period as the detective branch of the Metropolitan Police was evolving, the genre of detective fiction was also emerging, mainly in the short-story form. In these stories, a mystery or a crime occurs, and an amateur or professional detective is called in to solve it. The first modern detective story is often thought to be Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, which first introduced the golden age of detective stories, and the world to private detectives, that would later culminate into

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Nash, Ilana, and R. Gordon Kelly. "Mystery Fiction and Modern Life." South Central Review 18, no. 3/4 (2001): 122. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3190359.

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Bielke-Rodenbiker, Jean. "Review Sources for Mystery Fiction." Collection Management 29, no. 3-4 (2004): 53–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j105v29n03_05.

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Cawelti, John G., and R. Gordon Kelly. "Mystery Fiction and Modern Life." Journal of American History 85, no. 4 (1999): 1640. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2568370.

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Halli, Robert W., and R. Gordon Kelly. "Mystery Fiction and Modern Life." South Atlantic Review 64, no. 1 (1999): 134. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3201760.

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Davis, Christine S., and Jan Warren-Findlow. "The Mystery of the Troubled Breast." Qualitative Communication Research 1, no. 3 (2012): 291–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/qcr.2012.1.3.291.

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This autoethnographic narrative uses fictional female heroine Nancy Drew and her friends to perform coauthor Jan's experience of breast cancer. Friends and colleagues Jan and Cris try out alternative characterizations of Nancy Drew as a mechanism for Jan to push back against the social construction of breast cancer victim/survivor. We use performative fiction to be creative and have fun with the experience while providing social support and deepening our relationship. In the end, Jan performs self-with-breast-cancer as an academic feminist, and Nancy Drew performs breast cancer as a fictional

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Davis, Caitlin. "“Realistic Villains”." Digital Literature Review 10, no. 1 (2023): 96–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.10.1.96-106.

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Crime films–one of the most beloved forms of crime fiction—have a close relationship with society due to their themes and subject matter. Because of this relationship, crime films are able to use their genre-specific elements to include social commentary within their storylines. Using their victims, suspects, and resolutions of the crimes, modern crime fiction pieces such as Rian Johnson’s 2019 film Knives Out and Halina Reijn’s 2022 film Bodies Bodies Bodies both implement larger conversations within their stories. In Knives Out, the audience follows the mystery behind the sudden death of the

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Beasley, Brett. "Kant’s “Jewel” and Collins’s “Moonstone”." Renascence 75, no. 3 (2023): 212–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/renascence2023753/412.

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Mystery fiction is sometimes assumed—both by scholars and by general readers—to have a simple or even simplistic relationship to morality. Mysteries, on this view, are straightforward "whodunnits": They satisfy readers by identifying wrongdoing and then assigning blame to the individual or individuals responsible. In this paper, I offer a contrary view. I show that the moral laboratory of mystery fiction often winds up subverting, undermining, and unsettling some of our most basic moral assumptions and our standard approaches to thinking about moral responsibility and moral justification. It d

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Wagaa Ali AL-Juboori, Dr Intisar Mohammed. "A Socially Realistic Study of Crime and Corruption in P.D. James’ Works." Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities 31, no. 1 (2024): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jtuh.31.1.2024.23.

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P.D. James is a well - known author of both crime and mysteries who is recognized with enlarging the mystery subgenre. Even though she uses aspects of traditional detective fiction, James is particularly concerned in establishing the psychological motivations of her characters. James is renowned for her sophisticated written style, which is accentuated by literary allusions and quotations, as well as for the vivid, realistic characters and locations she creates. Writing detective fiction is one of James's passions and she strives to use the techniques that make "serious fiction" gratifying whi

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Mr., Vitthal Gangaram Shinde. "Reflection of Social Norms in Ruth Rendell's Mystery Fiction." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research S6, no. 36 (2025): 67–73. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15544197.

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<em>The present paper is an attempt to focus on the social norms which are reflected in the mystery   with specific reference in fictional work of the acclaimed British Woman Novelist. Ruth Rendell is known as the second queen of mystery fiction. Rendell uses her mystery literature to illustrate a number of issues. She employs enigma, suspense, crime, and murder in her novels. Even though she was a female novelist, she was just as adept at expressing today's societal themes as male novelists. She often made the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her best-selling books include standalone p

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Văsieș, Alex. "Narrative Devices in Motion: From Genre Fiction to Mainstream Fictoin in Florin Chirculescu’s Prose." Caietele Echinox 43 (December 1, 2022): 216–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.14.

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This article explores the dynamics between Romanian genre fiction and mainstream fiction in the postcommunist period, trying to negotiate the instrumentalizations of narrative devices usually found in popular literature (be it fantasy, crime, or mystery fiction) in a novel that transcends normative genre boundaries. Thus, the text traces a specific way in which some Romanian writers (in this case Florin Chirculescu) have navigated the strenuous path brought by capitalism in the local literary scene.

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Yun, Hong. "The Changing Status of the Detectives in the Novels of Agatha Christie and Keigo Higashino: From Rational Authority to Human Exploration." Humanities and Social Science Research 8, no. 1 (2025): p27. https://doi.org/10.30560/hssr.v8n1p27.

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Detective fiction is a genre characterized by mystery, reasoning, and intrigue that has captivated readers for centuries. However, the mystery here does not rely on theology but is rooted in logic. Malmgren (1997), in Bloody Murder, defines detective fiction as a hybrid genre encompassing elements of detective crime, psychological analysis, suspense, and police procedural stories. It ensures that the detective's resolution of the crime presented to them does not depend on “divine revelations, feminine intuition, nonsensical ramblings, trickery, coincidence, or acts of God.”

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Debalina Roychowdhury Banerjee. "Revisiting Vampirism: Myth, Mystery, Science, History." Creative Launcher 7, no. 1 (2022): 22–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2022.7.1.04.

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Many legends and myths have survived through ages. They also have strong connection with reality of past and present. History, mythology, science, psychology, fiction all is entwined in such a way that it becomes difficult to segregate them from one another. In fact, all these together bring a new meaning to such a subject. True it is and true it shall be that, almost everything that we can think of is connected to many other things. Vampirism is not an exception to that. Though it has been popularized by fictions more, it also has a bleak history, a dreary reality that comes through psycholog

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Steere, Elizabeth. "“The mystery of the Myrtle Room”: Reading Wilkie Collins’ The Dead Secret as an Early Female Detective Novel." Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 5, no. 1 (2023): 58–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/yrrl8350.

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While Wilkie Collins’ novels The Moonstone (1868) and The Woman in White (1859-60) have long been accepted as part of the early mystery canon, Collins’ earlier novel The Dead Secret (1857) is rarely included. The Dead Secret is here reconsidered as one of the earliest English female detective novels, revealing its heretofore unrecognised significance to the genre of detective fiction and the evolution of the literary female detective. The Dead Secret’s protagonist, Rosamond, is almost Holmesian in her methodical collection of evidence and tactical lines of questioning to arrive at the solution

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Rock, Judith. "Men in Black: Jesuits in Mystery Fiction." Journal of Jesuit Studies 8, no. 2 (2021): 293–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-0802p008.

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BOYER, STEVEN D. "The logic of mystery." Religious Studies 43, no. 1 (2007): 89–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003441250600878x.

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This paper proposes an analytical taxonomy of ‘mystery’ based upon what makes a mystery mysterious. I begin by distinguishing mysteries that depend on what we do not know (e.g. detective fiction) from mysteries that depend on what we do know (e.g. religious mysteries). Then I distinguish three possible grounds for the latter type. The third and most provocative ground offers a mathematical analogy for how rational reflection can be appropriate to mystery without compromising its intrinsically mysterious character. I conclude with reflections on the metaphysical presuppositions that this unders

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Y, Lalitha. "Postmodernism in the Fiction Synchology Summary of Kumaraselvas Fiction." International Research Journal of Tamil 3, S-1 (2021): 132–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt21s121.

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The article Post Modernism, written by writer Kumaraselva, examines the emergence of postmodernism in the short stories Nagamalai, Karatam, Ukilu, Vidalu and Uyirmaranam, and then modernity does not see anything as universal and analyses everything separately. It is also expanding beyond the limits of art and literature to philosophy, politics, lifestyle, technology, architecture, drama, cinema. Postmodernism created myths with a mystery that distorts language, distorts stories and expresses the poetry of the language. It also attracts the attention of the readers and gives them a happy readin

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Dhanawade, Sanmati Vijay. ""In a Dry Season" - A Police Procedural Novel by Peter Robinson." World Journal of English Language 11, no. 1 (2021): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v11n1p24.

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Genre fiction, also recognized as popular fiction is an umbrella term as it comprises various categories, varieties, and sub-types. On occasion, innovative writers have practiced in mingling these methods and generating an entirely dissimilar variety of categories. In general, genre fiction inclines to place plentiful significance on entertainment and, as a consequence, it leans towards to be more widespread with mass audiences. But currently, writers are lettering beyond mere meager amusement and they are commenting on various socio-cultural issues, resulting in their writing more realistic.

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Hamilton, Scott Eric. "The Murphy Murder Mystery: An Irish “post-mortem situation”." Estudios Irlandeses, no. 16 (March 17, 2021): 139–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.24162/ei2021-9987.

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This paper will propose that Beckett’s affinity for crime and mystery fiction also contributes to Murphy. The novel will be examined on the proposed hypothesis that Murphy’s death, so-called, is conspicuously left ambiguous to a certain degree, rendering it a type of mystery narrative. Approaching the mysterious death as something like a detective fiction “cold case”, the events of Murphy, and clues left by Beckett throughout the prose that follows, I will investigate whether or not Murphy does actually die toward the end of the book. Although Beckett does not present these aspects in the trad

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Stoecklein, Mary. "Native Narratives, Mystery Writing, and the Osage Oil Murders: Examining Mean Spirit and The Osage Rose." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42, no. 3 (2018): 137–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.42.3.stoecklein.

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Through analysis of two debut novels, Linda Hogan's Pulitzer-Prize-nominated murdermystery Mean Spirit 1990 and Tom Holm's private eye detective story The Osage Rose 2008, this article considers what Native-authored mystery fiction has to offer in terms of self-representation of Indigenous history and culture. Paying particular attention to detective fiction genre elements—such as the novels' openings, the detectives, the forms of detection, and the resolution—shows how Hogan and Holm employ the mystery genre to present Native narratives about the Osage oil murders, and, given their ability to

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Huang, Yunte. "The Lasting Lure of the Asian Mystery." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 133, no. 2 (2018): 384–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2018.133.2.384.

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Among the numerous accolades and awards garnered by viet thanh nguyen's debut novel, the sympathizer (2015), the one receiving the least attention from academic critics will probably be the Edgar Award, bestowed by the Mystery Writers of America. After all, The Sympathizer boasts aesthetic achievements that far exceed the generic confines of a conventional mystery novel. Also, even in the age of cultural studies, when the divide between the popular and the elite is supposed to have all but disappeared, literary scholars, if they are honest with themselves, still hang on to the notion that ther

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Government, of Kerala. "Decoding the Edible Ecriture: Barthesian Reading on Select Culinary Crime Narratives." ISHAL PAITHRKAM 40, no. 40 (2024): 128–40. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14684511.

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Decoding the Edible Ecriture:  Barthesian Reading on Select Culinary Crime Narratives Author: Sruthy Francis MAuthor: Dr. Preethi Nair Food is a subject of multifaceted discussion, often uncovering diverse food-related concepts. Among these is Culinary Mystery Narratives, a relatively new subgenre growing in popularity among international readers. This subgenre’s appeal stems from its whodunit or enigmatic structure, where food functions as both a narrative and meta-narrative device, captivating readers through its layered storytelling. This paper delves into the concept of food as

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Malmgren, Carl D. "Anatomy of Murder: Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction." Journal of Popular Culture 30, no. 4 (1997): 115–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1997.3004_115.x.

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Teel, John, and Michael Cohen. "Murder Most Fair: The Appeal of Mystery Fiction." South Atlantic Review 66, no. 2 (2001): 202. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3201889.

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Rowland, Susan, and Michael Cohen. "Murder Most Fair: The Appeal of Mystery Fiction." Modern Language Review 97, no. 4 (2002): 928. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3738625.

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Katelyn Mathew. "How Young Adult Crime Fiction Influences and Reflects Modern Adolescents." Digital Literature Review 10, no. 1 (2023): 108–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.10.1.108-119.

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When we read crime fiction, we oftentimes expect a cast dominated by adult characters. This is likely a result of decades’ worth of popular crime fiction narratives almost exclusively containing adult characters. The earliest literature in the mystery and crime genre that was targeted towards younger audiences contained teenage detectives and adult criminals because it allowed the younger audiences to read about powerful teenagers overthrowing adult authority while still only engaging in acceptable moral activities in an attempt to decrease or discourage juvenile delinquency. A newer trend amo

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Takla, Nefertiti. "Women and Crime: Exploring the Role of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Constructions of Female Criminality." International Journal of Middle East Studies 54, no. 1 (2022): 124–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743822000022.

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This roundtable on women and crime was inspired by a discussion at a CUNY Dissections Seminar in April 2021, where Gülhan Balsoy presented her work in progress on Ottoman crime fiction in the early 20th century. The focus of her paper was a popular murder mystery series called The National Collection of Murders, which had been published in Istanbul in 1914. The protagonists of this fictional crime series were a mother and daughter known as the Dark Witch and the Bloody Fairy, who led an underground criminal gang living in a secret subterranean world beneath the city of Istanbul. While reading

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Rubio Gijón, Pablo. "“El caso Berciani” de Alan Pauls: un viaje a los bajos fondos." Acta Hispanica 21 (January 1, 2016): 131–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/actahisp.2016.21.131-141.

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“El caso Berciani” (1992) relates to the genre of detective and mystery fiction by parody and distortion. Alan Pauls (Buenos Aires, 1959) explores the relation between order and abjection. In so doing, “El caso Berciani” becomes a thorough reflection on the failure of modernization. This article explores how this short story uses detective fiction to elaborate on knowledge and interpretation, and urban dystopias and social tensions.

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Bubíková, Šárka. "Ethnicity and Social Critique in Tony Hilleman’s Crime Fiction." Prague Journal of English Studies 5, no. 1 (2016): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2016-0008.

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Abstract American mystery writer Tony Hillerman (1925-2008) achieved wide readership both within the United States and abroad, and, significantly, within the US both among white Americans and Native Americans. This article discusses Hillerman’s detective fiction firstly within the tradition of the genre and then focuses on particular themes and literary means the writer employs in order to disseminate knowledge about the Southwestern nations (tribes) among his readers using the framework of mystery (crime) fiction. Hillerman’s two literary detectives Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Ch

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Kärnä, Emmi L. K., Jaakko Väkevä, Heidi Rautalahti, and Janne Lindqvist. "Questions without Answers: Enjoyment of Irresolution in Mystery Player Experience." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 8, CHI PLAY (2024): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3677100.

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Mysteries are an engaging form of fiction, capturing audiences with curiosity, uncertainty, and ambiguity. However, mysteries in games have presented a challenge for research since the word mystery may be understood as 1) detective mysteries with clear-cut answers or 2) as mysteries which are unsolvable and incomprehensible. This paper focuses on the latter kind of mysteries. To investigate what constitutes a mystery player experience, in what ways mystery games provide answers to players and how to design these games, we inspected five mystery games through a formalist game analysis by a play

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Grosevych, I. V. "GOTHIC FICTION: FIGURATIVE PLOT PARADIGM." PRECARPATHIAN BULLETIN OF THE SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY Word, no. 2(54) (January 22, 2019): 275–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.31471/2304-7402-2019-2(54)-275-287.

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The article deals with the theoretical generalization of the attributes of a poetic of gothic, in particular in the article is analyzed in details the figurative-motive and plot-compositional levels; is traced the evolution of the image of Devil; is identified the triune category − mystery / horror / suspense – as a genre constant of gothic fiction; is identified the road archetype; is analyzed the functionality of gothic, contrast as the dominant feature of the gothic paradigm; and also is grounded the philosophical doctrine of the theodicy as one of the fundamental basis of all gothic fictio

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Gulyamovna, Niyazova Gulnorakhon. "The development of literary thought and the detective genre." American Journal of Philological Sciences 5, no. 3 (2025): 116–18. https://doi.org/10.37547/ajps/volume05issue03-29.

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This article examines detective fiction as a structured literary genre characterized by logical reasoning, mystery, and deduction. It explores the evolution of detective fiction from its origins in the works of Poe and Doyle to its modern developments, highlighting key narrative strategies, cognitive principles, and discourse structures. The study also considers the role of gender, power dynamics, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying detective storytelling, referencing both Western and Uzbek detective literature.

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Sistiadinita, Sistiadinita. "A MAN IN THE COURT: EXPLORING THE THEME OF JUSTICE IN AND THEN THERE WERE NONE." Jurnal Ilmiah Spectral 7, no. 1 (2021): 051–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.47255/spectral.v7i1.69.

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Having to interact with crime fiction which presumably is considered as ephemeral literature, cannot be an excuse to dissolve the theme of justice inside the plots. Agatha Christie as the Mistress of Complication and Mystery, has written series of murder and mystery fiction since the beginning of twentieth century. And Then There Were None or entitled Ten Little Niggers, one of her masterpieces depicts Christie’s unique disposition of turning perception from ‘detective as criminal solver’ into ‘murderer as justice protector’. This paper seeks to analyze how justice is portrayed and challenged

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Sistiadinita. "A MAN IN THE COURT: EXPLORING THE THEME OF JUSTICE IN AND THEN THERE WERE NONE." Jurnal Ilmiah Spectral 7, no. 1 (2021): 051–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.47255/5ff22r80.

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Having to interact with crime fiction which presumably is considered as ephemeral literature, cannot be an excuse to dissolve the theme of justice inside the plots. Agatha Christie as the Mistress of Complication and Mystery, has written series of murder and mystery fiction since the beginning of twentieth century. And Then There Were None or entitled Ten Little Niggers, one of her masterpieces depicts Christie’s unique disposition of turning perception from ‘detective as criminal solver’ into ‘murderer as justice protector’. This paper seeks to analyze how justice is portrayed and challenged

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COULARDEAU, Jacques. "FREE-FALLING DESCENT INTO EPIPHANY OR APOCALYPSE STEPHEN KING – A FAIRY TALE." International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science 6, no. 11 (2022): 5–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.26520/ijtps.2022.6.11.5-29.

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Stephen King has published more than 70 books, many of them adapted to the cinema and television, some original series with no published scenario, except Storm of the Century in 1999. His reach is a lot wider than plain horror. He systematically mixes the various genres of horror, fantasy, suspense, mystery, science fiction, etc. I will only consider his latest stand-alone novel with no co-author, and not part of a series like Gwendy’s Final Task, also published in 2022, co-authored with Richard Chizmar. I will show the style uses some patterns to build the architecture of the story, in this c

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Melik-Pashayev, A. A. "Insight: Riddle or Mystery?" Bulletin of the State University of Education. Series: Psychology, no. 2 (February 7, 2024): 56–67. https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5105-2024-2-56-67.

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Aim. The goal is, based on an analysis of research, to reveal the inner life of a person using the example of the phenomenon of insightMethodology. Analysis of psychological, fiction and philosophical literature, self-reports of people who experienced insight at different ages.Results. Three types of insight have been identified - from a sudden solution to a specific scientific problem to a more or less clear awareness by a person of his purpose and future creative path in general. The study allows us to suggest that the prospects for the development of humanitarian psychology are associated w

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Adams, Don. "Becoming the Wounded Person: The Christian Vision of James Purdy’s Fiction." Christianity & Literature 73, no. 1 (2024): 14–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chy.2024.a925052.

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Abstract: This essay considers the fiction of James Purdy from the point of view of his self-proclaimed Christian vision, which embraces each individual as sacred through empathic understanding, eschewing objective judgment based on abstract absolutes. The essay argues that Purdy’s contrarian fiction can be understood revealingly in relation to the negative theology of Pseudo-Dionysius and Nicholas of Cusa, which envisioned a subjective, perspectival, and creatively participatory ontology that anticipated the relational and contextual paradigm of the real posited by quantum physics. Refusing r

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Fleming, R., and C. A. Venetis. "SESSION 56: MYSTERY FICTION: PROGESTERONE IN THE FOLLICULAR PHASE." Human Reproduction 27, suppl 2 (2012): ii81—ii82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/humrep/27.s2.55.

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Casey, Maud. "To Be Undone: The Art of Mystery in Fiction." New England Review 38, no. 2 (2017): 189–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ner.2017.0057.

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Gregoriou, Christiana. "Plotting and characterisation in Sophie Hannah’s The Other Half Lives: a cognitive stylistic approach." Journal of Literary Semantics 52, no. 1 (2023): 41–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jls-2023-2004.

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Abstract (Sophie Hannah’s. 2009. The Other Half Lives. London: Hodder). The Other Half Lives both complies with, and departs from, the crime fiction formula or text schema. It features a mystery the specifics of which are unravelled non-chronologically, while its numerous crimes and non-ideal criminals and victims disrupt readers’ world schemas and help enable its surprising effects. Not unlike such fiction, the story’s early happenings feature late in the telling, while many happenings are given from different character perspectives. Both of these help unsettle narrative perspective, and gene

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Brown-Syed, Christopher, and Charles Barnard Sands. "SOME PORTRAYALS OF LIBRARIANS IN FICTION - A DISCUSSION." Education Libraries 21, no. 1-2 (2017): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/el.v21i1-2.111.

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This article explores portrayals of librarians in selected works of fiction, notably those involving mystery or detection. It begins with a summary of information derived from descriptions of about one hundred and twenty contemporary or recent works, then discusses particular stories involving detection or mystery, with occasional references to other genres such as science fiction, historical fiction, espionage, and romance. In 1996, we began to compile a bibliography of fiction involving librarians to accompany a graduate course introducing the profession. Entries were obtained through search

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Sandberg, Eric. "Detective Fiction, Nostalgia and Rian Johnson's Knives Out: Making the Golden Age Great Again." Crime Fiction Studies 1, no. 2 (2020): 237–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2020.0023.

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The Golden Age is back with a vengeance: reprints, re-boots, and adaptations of interwar detective fiction and its off-shoots have proliferated in the twenty-first century, as have works more loosely, but nonetheless substantially, inspired by the clue-puzzle format developed and perfected by authors like Agatha Christie. This resurgence of the ‘whodunnit’ mystery is something of mystery itself, as the centre of gravity of crime writing has long shifted away from this ostensibly dated and aesthetically limited form. This paper explores this unexpected development, looking in particular at the

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Gurung, Raj Kumar, and Kamal Sharma. "Detective Strategy and Joys of Mystery in Murder on the Orient Express." American Journal of Arts and Human Science 3, no. 2 (2024): 241–45. https://doi.org/10.54536/ajahs.v3i2.3952.

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This paper explores how the mystery of murder is solved using the detective theory of S. S. Van Dine’s Rules and Roland A. Knox’s Ten Commandments. Ratchett kidnapped and killed Daisy Armstrong even after getting ransom money from her parents. With the tension between legal and moral justice, the joys of mystery telling are uncovered. All the clues are presented to the readers as suggested by S.S. Van Dine. With the clues, even careful readers conclude that the detective has found the culprit. It is discovered through logical deduction and naturalistic means along with good reasoning. The rese

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Mr., Vitthal Gangaram Shinde. "Representation of Criminal Women Characters in Ruth Rendell's Mystery Fiction." Literary Enigma 1, no. 2 (2025): 58–65. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15315978.

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Abstract   The present paper is an attempt to analyze the criminal women characters which are represented in the mystery and crime with specific reference in fictional work of the acclaimed British Woman Novelist. Ruth Rendell is known as the second queen of mystery fiction. Rendell uses her mystery literature to illustrate a number of issues. She employs enigma, suspense, crime, and murder in her novels. Even though she was a female novelist, she was just as adept at expressing today's societal themes as male novelists. She often made the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her best-selling bo

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Nichols, Ryan, Justin Lynn, and Benjamin Grant Purzycki. "Toward a science of science fiction." Scientific Study of Literature 4, no. 1 (2014): 25–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.4.1.02nic.

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What is a genre? What distinguishes a genre like science fiction from other genres? We convert texts to data and answer these questions by demonstrating a new method of quantitative literary analysis. We state and test directional hypotheses about contents of texts across the science fiction, mystery, and fantasy genres using psychometrically validated word categories from the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. We also recruit the work of traditional genre theorists in order to test humanists’ interpretations of genre. Since Darko Suvin’s theory is among the few testable definitions of science

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