detective fiction

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Scope note
Literary or oral fiction genre in which a crime, often murder, is committed under mysterious circumstances and then solved by the central figure of a detective, using keen observation and rational analysis of clues and evidence.
detective fiction
Accepted term: 29-Apr-2024