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- A
- Ab ovo
- Action
- Action-adventure
- Action fiction
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- Agatha Christie
- Al Capone
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- Allegory
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- And Then There Were None
- Antagonist
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- Comic book
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- Cozy mystery
- CraveOnline
- Creative Nonfiction
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- Dark
- Dark Fantasy
- Dashiell Hammett
- Deal with the Devil
- Dell Magazines
- Detective
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- Deus Ex Machina
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- Diction
- Diegesis
- Dime novel
- Docufiction
- Dominant narrative
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Drama
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- Dream world
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- English Renaissance
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- Franklin W. Dixon
- Future tense
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- Genre
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- Giallo
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- Golden age of detective fiction
- Good and Evil
- Gothic fiction
- Grammatical tense
- Grand Guignol
- Graphic novel
- Hamartia
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- Hard science fiction
- Heist film
- Hero
- Historical fiction
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- Horror fiction
- Imagery
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- In Medias Res
- Inspirational fiction
- International Standard Book Number
- Inverted detective story
- Irony
- John Dickson Carr
- John Grisham
- Keigo Higashino
- Kishōtenketsu
- Kristen Bird
- Legal drama
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- Legend
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- Lew Archer
- Lifestyle
- Linda Fairstein
- Lisa Scottoline
- Literary Criticism
- Literary genre
- Literary theory
- Locked-room mystery
- MacGuffin
- Mage Farmer
- Magic realism
- Mars Express
- Maurice Leblanc
- Metafiction
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- Michael Collins
- Michael Connelly
- Mode
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- Moral
- Moral development
- Motif
- Multiperspectivity
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Mystery
- Mystery film
- Mystery writers
- Mystery Writers of America
- Myth
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- Narration
- Narrative
- Narrative art
- Narrative hook
- Narrative identity
- Narrative paradigm
- Narrative poetry
- Narrative structure
- Narrative therapy
- Narratology
- Nautical fiction
- Neo-noir
- New
- Next
- Noir fiction
- Non-fiction
- Nonfiction
- Non-fiction novel
- Nonlinear narrative
- Novel
- Novella
- Occult detective fiction
- One Thousand and One Nights
- Origin story
- Pace
- Parable
- Parallel novel
- Paranoid fiction
- Past Tense
- P. D. James
- Peripeteia
- Perry Mason
- Philip Marlowe
- Philosophical fiction
- Picaresque novel
- Plot
- Plot device
- Plot twist
- Poetic justice
- Police Officer
- Police procedural
- Political fiction
- Premise
- Prequel
- Present Tense
- Procedural drama
- Protagonist
- Protasis
- PS5
- Pseudonym
- Psychological novel
- Pulp magazine
- Raymond Chandler
- Reboot
- Red Herring
- Retroactive continuity
- Rhetoric
- Romance
- Romance novel
- Ross Macdonald
- Ryan Gosling
- SaGa
- Sam Spade
- Sara Paretsky
- Satire
- Scandinavian noir
- Science fiction
- Scott Turow
- Screenwriting
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Self-insertion
- Sequel
- Serial killer
- Serie A
- Seth Ring
- Shaggy dog story
- Sherlock Holmes
- Shooter Graven
- Short story
- Southern Gothic
- Speculative fiction
- Spy-fi
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- Stereotype
- Stock character
- Story arc
- Storytelling
- Story within a story
- Straight man
- Stream of Consciousness
- Stream of unconsciousness
- Stylistic device
- Subplot
- Sue Grafton
- Superhero fiction
- Supernatural
- Supporting character
- Suspense
- Suspension of Disbelief
- Symbolism
- Tall tale
- Television
- The Hardy Boys
- The Hollow Man
- Theme
- The Moonstone
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- The Woman in White
- Three-act structure
- Thriller
- Time Travel
- Title role
- Toné
- Tragic Hero
- Trash culture
- Trial film
- Tritagonist
- Trope
- True Crime
- Types of fiction with multiple endings
- Unreliable narrator
- Urban fiction
- Utopia
- Utopian and dystopian fiction
- Verisimilitude
- Vignette
- Villain
- Voltaire
- Wayback Machine
- Weird menace
- Western fiction
- Whodunit
- Wilkie Collins
- Worldbuilding
- Writer
- Writing style
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