Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [concepts in the arts and humanities]
5. [genres in literature and performing arts]
6. fiction (general genre)
7. crime fiction

Anotations

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.