The Mystery genre is rather unique in its age, because most genres have been around since ancient times, with Sci-Fi being believed to have started in the 2nd century, and if you count mythology as part of fantasy then it’s been around since practically the beginning of stories, before even written stories were a thing and they were passed down orally. Horror has been around for as long as ghost stories by the fire, and comedy for as long as people have wanted to laugh. Mystery, also called crime, fiction is by comparison a newborn since it was only started in the 1800s. the reason for this is believed to be the fact that people didn’t live in huge cities until the 19th century, and so at most a town would have a constable or sheriff who knew everyone well, since the town was so small everyone knew everyone, meaning if there ever was a crime it would be solved extremely quickly, or not at all. it wasn’t until huge numbers of people started living all together that large police forces started forming, and then detectives and private detectives came to solve crimes that those police forces couldn’t. Arthur Conan Doyle is perhaps the most famous mystery author because he wrote the Sherlock Holmes books, and it’s argued that Sherlock is what gave Mystery fiction it’s popularity, and that the genre is still running off his success. The second most important Mystery author is considered to be Edward Stratemeyer, who wrote Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, and thus introduced Mystery to children and younger audiences. Personally, Crime is not my favorite genre, but I do enjoy them whenever I read them.
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