THE EVOLUTION OF THE DETECTIVE NOVEL IN AMERICAN LITERATURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Abstract
Among the various phenomena of world fiction of the twentieth century, the detective story occupied a special place. The detective story, which emerged as a type of forensic-criminal journalism, has transformed from a work of non-fiction literature into one of the most striking phenomena of world fiction and so-called mass literature.
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