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INTEREST in MYSTERY FICTION Continues To This Day Because of Various TV Shows

EARLY & Modern Mystery Fiction Books


(Source: BakerStreet Editions)
(Source: BakerStreet Editions)
USPA NEWS - Mystery Fiction is a Genre of Fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved. The Central Character must be a Detective who eventually solves the Mystery by Logical Deduction from Facts fairly presented to the Reader. Sometimes Mystery Books are Nonfictional. The Genre of Mystery Novels is a young form of Literature that has developed since the early-19th Century. The massive popularity of Pulp Magazines in the 1930s and 1940s increased interest in Mystery Fiction....
Mystery Fiction is a Genre of Fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved. The Central Character must be a Detective who eventually solves the Mystery by Logical Deduction from Facts fairly presented to the Reader. Sometimes Mystery Books are Nonfictional. The Genre of Mystery Novels is a young form of Literature that has developed since the early-19th Century. The massive popularity of Pulp Magazines in the 1930s and 1940s increased interest in Mystery Fiction.

- 'L'AFFAIRE DE LA BELLE EVAPOREE' (Original Title : A Friendly Game of Murder - An Algonquin Round Table Mystery) By J.J. MURPHY and Published in FRANCE by BakerStreet Editions. Two previous Algonquin Round Table Mysteries : Murder Your Darlings and You Might as Well Die.

Dorothy Parker hosts as New Year´s Eve Party in the famous Algonquin Hotel and for entertainment devices as Whodunit Game, in which each Guest draws a Card to determine the Murderer and Detective. With Sir Arthur Conan Doyle among the Hotel Guests, Dorothy Parker and her sidekick Robert Benchley do not need to look any further after one Starlet is found really dead.
The Hotel is under Quarantine and so the Guests are stranded in the Hotel like on a deserted island with a killer in their midst, the Police having no access inside. The Book is a quick read, in part because of the witty comments that are thrown in during dialogues. Do you need to be familiar with Dorothy Parker to enjoy this Book ?... Definitely NO ! Any Reader enjoying Wisecracks will be amused reading this Book.
- 'LE DETECTIVE DETRAQUE OU LES MESAVENTURES DE SHERLOCK HOLMES' (The deranged Detective or misadventures of Sherlock Holmes) by Rober BARR, James M. BARRIE, Arthur Conan DOYLE, R.C. LEHMANN, Bret HARTE, William B. KAHN, Maurice LEBLANC, Jean GIRAUDOUX, ALCESTE, O. HENRY, Jack LONDON, Frederic Door STEELE, Frederic Arnold KUMMER, René REOUVEN, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Librarians, Peter G. ASHMAN, Ely M. LIEBOW, Jacques FORTIER, Bernard OUDIN.
Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at Picardy Place, Edinburgh. He was educated in Jesuit Schools and later studied at Edinburgh University, qualifying as a Doctor in 1885. After graduation Arthur Conan Doyle practiced Medicine until 1891, when he became a full time Writer. Creativity was apparent in Doyle's Ancestry : his Grandfather was a famous Caricaturist and his Uncle was a well-known Illustrator. Doyle's Father was an Architect, Designer and Book Illustrator. Doyle himself was an Admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and Emile Gaboriau.
In developing his own Literary Character, Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on Doctor Joseph Bell, a Surgeon and Teacher he had studied with while attending Edinburgh University. Dr. Bell had the uncanny Ability to reveal a Patient's Symptoms, Diagnose Patients and Report on their Origins before they would speak a word to him about their Afflictions.... Sir Henry Littlejohn, who taught Forensic Medicine to Doyle also made a large impression and contributed to the development of Holmes' Character.As far as Holmes' name, his last name may have been based on American Jurist and fellow Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes and his first name may have come from Alfred Sherlock, a Prominent Violinist of his time.... This Book proposes different Fictions about Sherlock Holmes or creating Characters having similarities and always written by Famous Admiring Writers.

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