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crime fiction

Genre of detective fiction distinguished by emphasis on character and atmosphere rather than solving a mystery. Examples are the works of US writers Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler during the 1930s and, in the second half of the 20th century, US writer Patricia Highsmith and English author Ruth Rendell.

The English writer William Godwin's Caleb Williams (1794) is a forerunner that points to the continuing tendency in crime fiction for serious psychological exploration to be linked with political radicalism.
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