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DETECTIVE FICTION One is to explore detective fiction, in general, and especially the genre itself and the way it is written. One is to also find aspects of this in Edgar Allan Poes' critically acclaimed "The murders in the Rue morgue" which is said to be the first detective fiction book ever written. Detective fiction is one of a many genres. Genres are a way of describing a certain type of narrative like for example horror, comedy and Sci-Fi which are all different, each following their own pattern of writing. Western for example usually follows the cowboy fighting the red Indian or vise-versa plot and horror usually follows a collection of people being tormented by an evil entity of some kind. Detective stories usually follow the same pattern and formula which is quite a simple idea but falls into a deeper plot. In a detective story there has to be...

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