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Years past we could answer that question with a few short sentences. A mystery was a riddle or a puzzle. The reader and the protagonist had to determine the secret, solve the riddle or puzzle, and find the guilty party. The clues were buried within the story allowing an avid mystery reader to put the pieces together before the protagonist identified the culprit.
The genre was divided into three sub-genres, the cozy, soft boiled mysteries, and hard boiled mysteries. ...
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Years past we could answer that question with a few short sentences. A mystery was a riddle or a puzzle. The reader and the protagonist had to determine the secret, solve the riddle or puzzle, and find the guilty party. The clues were buried within the story allowing an avid mystery reader to put the pieces together before the protagonist identified the culprit.
The genre was divided into three sub-genres, the cozy, soft boiled mysteries, and hard boiled mysteries. ...
Mystery Genres updated Wed Dec 31 2008 7:28 am CST
Years past we could answer that question with a few short sentences. A mystery was a riddle or a puzzle. The reader and the protagonist had to determine the secret, solve the riddle or puzzle, and find the guilty party. The clues were buried within the story allowing an avid mystery reader to put the pieces together before the protagonist identified the culprit.
The genre was divided into three sub-genres, the cozy, soft boiled mysteries, and hard boiled mysteries. The classification was based on the degree of violence and little else.
That's not the case today. Depending on which source you read, the mystery genre has been divided up into six to twelve different sub-genres. The purpose of this lens is to clarify the sub-genre confusion for both the reader and the novice writer.
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