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Hillerman, Tony (editor); Herbert, Rosemary (editor)
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Fiction
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1996
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Oxford University Press
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English
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Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" launched the detective story in 1841. The genre began as a highbrow form of entertainment, a puzzle to be solved by a rational sifting of clues. In Britain, the stories became decidedly upper crust: the crime often committed in a world of manor homes and