The detective is bound to declare any clues which he may discover. The detective himself must not commit the crime. No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition that proves to be right. (Scott’s Note: I’ve slightly adapted the language from the original which now reads as very dated and racist when the intention was the opposite). No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end.
Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable. The criminal must be mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to know.Īll supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course. The form these stories were built on follows a similarly strict set of rules codified into a famous list known as Knox’s Decalogue: In an age sandwiched between two world wars-her stories brim with pride for a stiff British moral certitude that was impervious to the most heinous acts against it. Still, she was a fiercely disciplined adherent to a form created by her community of fellow writers, developed in the legendary Detection Club (including Dorothy Sayers, Ronald Knox, and the remarkable GK Chesterton).
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Christie is unrelenting in her ability to surprise-she killed children, popularized the unreliable narrator, introduced serial killers. “I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.” – Agatha Christie.Īgatha Christie is the most popular modern writer to ever live (outmatched in sales by only Shakespeare and the Bible). It wasn’t until Agatha Christie introduced the world to Poirot that the genre shifted into its strictest and most enduring form: the garden variety murder mystery. While Doyle spurred an entire literature of copycats (most interestingly, the Holmes-eque villain Fantomas, who since his introduction in 1911, had an unlikely second life as a French film franchise widely celebrated in the Soviet Union). Thus began a long dance between the murder mystery’s evolution and the shifting anxieties of people caroming into modernity. Holmes was introduced in the novella, A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887, the same year as the Michelson–Morley experiment, the first step toward Einstein’s theory of relativity. While Poe may have invented the genre, Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes did something that the form had never seen-they changed “reason” into “science” and applied it to the art of deduction. When I described murder mysteries in that second sentence, your mind likely jumped to two authors: Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. The latter was such a phenomenal success that Netflix recently paid Daniel Craig $100,000,000 to reprise the role in two upcoming films. We’re reminded of how much we delight in the genre when a specific story captivates our collective imagination: Gosford Park, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Knives Out. Since then, we’ve collectively engaged in a 150-year love affair with the cat and mouse of murder mysteries. Auguste Dupin, a purveyor of “ratiocination,” or intensive reasoning-who was introduced to the world in The Murders on the Rue Morgue. We’re here today to talk murder… well, the genre.Įdgar Allan Poe invented the murder mystery genre we know today with C. He came of age living on a bookshelf in Paris, where he was named a person of interest in a murder on the Seine, and has been trying to make sense of mystery, and all the other things he’s read ever since. Scott Stedman (SS) is an entrepreneur who co-founded Northside Media Group, TOURISTS, and Saturnalia.
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