Genre Fiction Lineage · Section
Detective Fiction
Detective and mystery fiction by first printing, dating the writers, stories and devices of the genre against the magazine or book where each first appeared.
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Lineage essay
A sealed-room murder was in print by 1838 in a Le Fanu tale, before Poe's 1841 Rue Morgue. Five rooms dated to 1907, who named whom, and a CSV.
Start here: the section’s flagship entry
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Catalogue entry
The Notting Hill Mystery began in Once a Week on 29 November 1862, five years before The Moonstone. Both serials dated and compared, with a CSV.
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Catalogue entry
In Gaboriau's L'Affaire Lerouge (1866 in the 1911 Britannica), the amateur Père Tabaret solves the case and Lecoq assists. His two pasts compared.
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"Portrait d'Émile Gaboriau (Figaro-Album)" by Alphonse Liébert, 1878 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_d'Emile_Gaboriau_(1832-1873),_(romancier),_PH50811.jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
