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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Category: Mystery
Status: Available
Source: Public Domain — Project Gutenberg
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About Classic Mystery Fiction
The golden age of mystery fiction produced some of the most enduringly popular works in literary history. The genre was essentially invented in the 19th century — Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin stories appeared in the 1840s, and Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in 1887 — and the detective novel quickly became one of the most sophisticated and widely read forms of fiction ever created. Classic mysteries are more than puzzles to be solved: they are explorations of crime, justice, and human motivation that ask hard questions about what drives people to desperate actions, and about the nature of truth and the reliability of appearances. The detective figure — rational, observant, relentless — became one of the great archetypes of modern storytelling. Reading the original Holmes stories, or the early detective fiction that inspired them, is to encounter a genre at its freshest and most inventive, before its conventions became familiar enough to feel formulaic.
