Title: Mystery fiction - Wikipedia
Headings: Mystery fiction
Mystery fiction
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Beginnings
21st century
Classifications
Detective fiction
True crime
Cozy mystery
Legal thriller
Police procedural
Howcatchem
Hardboiled fiction
Historical mystery
Locked-room mystery
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Content: Finally, detective stories focus on the detective and how the crime was solved, while mystery fiction concentrates on the identity of the culprit and how the crime was committed, a distinction that separated And Then There Were None from other works of Agatha Christie . True crime
Main article: True crime
The true crime is a literary genre that recounts real crimes committed by real people, almost half focusing on serial killers. Criticized by many as being insensitive to those personally acquainted with the incidents, it is often categorized as trash culture. Having basis on reality, it shares more similarities with docufiction than the mystery genre. Unlike fiction of the kind, it doesn't focus much on the identity of the culprit and has no red herrings or clues, but often emphasizes how the culprit was caught and their motivations behind their actions. Cozy mystery
Main article: Cozy mystery
Cozy mysteries began in the late 20th century as a reinvention of the Golden Age whodunit; these novels generally shy away from violence and suspense and frequently feature female amateur detectives. Modern cozy mysteries are frequently, though not necessarily in either case, humorous and thematic.