Crime fiction

By zeatoz

  • The first crime fiction novel. 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'.

    "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern crime/detective story.

  • Crime fictions spreads all over the US, UK and Europe.

    Crime fiction has taken off, and spreads all around the world, where writers start to try it for the first time, igniting passion for the genre as a whole.

  • Police procedural subgenre emerges.

  • Sherlock Holmes is written.

    Arthur Conan Doyle is the man who invented Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes mysteries are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in the crime fiction genre.

  • Detective Fiction emerges.

  • Agatha Christie begins writing crime fiction.

    The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.

  • Murder on the Orient Express is written.

    Agatha christie releases one of the most well-known crime fiction novels to date. With 2 movies and many adaptations this boom solidified crime fiction as a main genre.

  • Heist fiction emerges.