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In the 17th and 18th centuries we find several stories dealing with crime.
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Very brutal, bloody and descriptive period.
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Crime fiction as we know it appears for the first time in the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
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In 1829, the beginning of today's police forces were formed.
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He wrote articles about their work and created one of the first officiel fictional detectives, Inspector Bucket in Bleak House
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He always wrote about Doyle (his character), became extremely popular because it was always Doyle and not some new person in his stories. The stories always started in Baker Street, therefor always the same place.
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He also favoured the official police force and in one of the very first crime novels, "The Moonstone" one of the main caracters is Sergeant Cuff, a skillful police detective.
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Agatha Christie (1890-1976) and Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1982)
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The author is supposed to present the relevant clues in the text, so that the reader has a chance to solve the mystery.
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A new beginning and more technology came into it, it became more movies than books. The detectives are now loners, who drinks whiskey and smokes.
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After the second World War, the picture of the crime stories gets more blurred, it is no longer possible to put the crime stories of a particular period under one label. But, there are certain trends that have characterized the post-war period.
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It is a pleasurable experience that is removed from our own life. To make time pass by.