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   Hard-boiled detective novels, pioneered by authors like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, emerged as an American counterpoint to the more cerebral British detective fiction tradition.

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   Ronald Knox, a British writer and priest, formalized detective novel conventions in 1929 with his tongue-in-cheek 'Ten Commandments' of fair-play mystery writing.

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   During the 1920s and 1930s, detective novel popularity surged in what is now called the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, producing many of the genre's most enduring conventions.

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   Agatha Christie, often called the Queen of Crime, is one of the best-selling detective novel authors of all time, with billions of copies sold worldwide.

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   The detective novel genre is widely considered to have originated with Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' published in 1841.

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