English Detective Fiction

English Detective Fiction

Occurred to detective story, which country will come first in your mind? (England, America, Japan)

It’s true that English, American, Japanese are the greatest part of the detective fiction’s creator. And today, we are gonna talk about English detective fiction thoroughly.

Above all, I’ll show you some information about detective story. Detective fiction is a subgenre (亚种) of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective ---either professional or amateur ---investigates a crime often murder .

Occur to those famous detective fiction writers, the first one come to your mind must be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859~1930) the one who created Sherlock Holmes. Somehow, he may be the most famous detective fiction writer in the world wide. Doyle wrote the first Holmes short story from his office at 2 Upper Wimpole Street, which is now marked by a memorial plaque. But have you ever know that Doyle’s attitude towards his most famous creation was pretty ambivalent. In November 1891 he wrote to his mother “I think of slaying Holmes,…and winding him up for good and all. He takes my mind from better things. ”2 years later, to dedicate more of his time to his historical novels, Doyle had Holmes and Professor Moriaty plunge to their deaths together. Until Doyle couldn’t stand the blame from his funs who had crazy for Sherlock a long time, he

made Sherlock rebirth in another book.

Except Conan Doyle, there still exist another famous English writer, Agatha Christie, the greatest female detective fiction writer. The Guinness Book of World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Till now, her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world’s most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare’s works and the Bible. If you still couldn’t remember who she is, now let me tell you some greatest books of her work. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders,And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile. Especially Murder on the Orient Express, it had became the basic of over 30 feature movies which had been played on the screen . And main of her works gets the same hero Hercule Poi rot and Miss Marple, both odd and freak, but extremely clever. The largest contribution she had made is starting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction Because there still too many important English detective fiction writers, I’ll choose three more writers who made a large contribution to fiction’s history.

William Wilkie Collins, the first person who give birth to full-length detective novel successfully, is famous for his The Woman in white and The Moonstone.

Anthony Berkeley, the largest promoter of each schools of detective