Detective story

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    • Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which a detective investigates a crime, often murder.
    • In hardboiled detective stories, writers will often examine the detective's character, morals and flaws, as much as they uncover the crime itself. 
    • The genre has been popular since the late nineteenth century when it was pioneered by Arthur Conan Doyle with his Sherlock Holmes series.