Author: LeRoy Lad Panek

Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective ...

Dashiell Hammett, like most successful writers, honed his skills in the trenches. Long before The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man made him a hou...

The American police novel emerged soon after World War II and by the end of the century it was one of the most important forms of American crime fi...

The appearance of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine in 1891 began a stampede of writers who wanted to emulate, build-upon or even satirize Art...

In English and American cultures, detective fiction has a long and illustrious history. Its origins can be traced back to major developments in ...

Until recently no one could read the stories that formed the basics of the detective story in America and made it one of the most popular kinds of ...

Traditionally, the history of detective stories as a literary genre begins in the 19th century with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dicke...