The literary genre of detective fiction originated in the middle of the 19th century, but interest in solving ingenious crimes has not faded since then. Among the thousands of authors, there are several names that are familiar to almost every lover of detective stories.
The first authors of detective stories
The founder of the detective genre is the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote in 1840 a series of stories about the amateur detective Dupin, who solved mysterious crimes using his intellect, logic and the ability to notice details. In England, the first author of detective stories was Wilkie Collins, who wrote the novel "The Woman in White" in 1860, and the famous "Moonstone" in 1868.
Passion for detective literature spawned many hobby clubs, whose members came up with and solved criminal riddles, guided by strict rules.
It is difficult to unequivocally answer the question who is the most famous author. In addition, the detective genre implies many options: psychological, classical, hermetic, historical, adventurous, fantastic, ironic, political, espionage, criminal. This diversity greatly complicates the search for the most famous author, because, for example, many researchers attribute the novel "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky to the genre of psychological detective stories. However, the story of the detective has several writers who are unequivocally regarded as the best detective stories.
The best writers around the world
The heyday of the British detective can be considered the beginning of the XX century, when their works were created by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Gilbert Chesterton. Each of these authors made a huge contribution to the development of the detective genre, inventing such brilliant detectives as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Father Brown. It is thanks to their works that the detective genre acquired the most characteristic features, such as the frequent presence of a detective's companion, attention to the psychological component of crimes, and careful development of a crime scheme. These are books you don't want to part with.
Many rules were invented that a detective novel supposedly must comply with, but only one of them is observed almost always. According to him, a detective investigating a crime cannot be a criminal.
As for other states, the most famous author of detective stories in France is rightly considered Georges Simenon, who wrote a series of novels about the detective Maigret. In the United States, one of the most popular authors was Ed McBain, describing the work of the 87th police station. The most famous writer in the genre of ironic detective story Ioanna Khmelevskaya lived in Poland, and one of the best authors of historical detective stories, Boris Akunin, is a citizen of the Russian Federation. One cannot but pay tribute to the Russian authors Daria Dontsova and Alexandra Marinina, who were able to write a huge number of female detective stories.
