Philosopher

Detective fiction

Overview

Detective fiction is a subtype of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels. Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, Kogoro Akechi, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Juvenile stories featuring The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and The Boxcar Children have also remained in print for several decades.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Detective fiction

• Colin Wilson
• The Da Vinci Code
• Thriller (genre)

Ideas Detective fiction discusses

• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• G. K. Chesterton
• Ghost
• Crime and Punishment
• William Godwin
• Individualism
• Speculative fiction
• Massachusetts
• Los Angeles
• Sociology
• Plagiarism
• Yuan dynasty
• Evidence
• Bengali language
• New Mexico
• Old Testament
• Occult
• Observation
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas
• Vizier
• Qing dynasty
• Protestantism
• Sherlock Holmes
• Social realism

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophy and literature.

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