Title: Tameri Guide for Writers: Form and Genre
Headings: Form and Genre
Form and Genre
Form-Fitting
Selecting a Genre
Romance
Mystery
True Crime
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Contemporary
Comic
Western
Historical
Horror / Thriller
Bildungsroman
Picaresque
Transgressive
Specialized Techniques
Epistolary
Roman à Clef
Citing the Tameri Guide Website
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Content: A simple setting, often a quiet English village, where  crime is rare. Agatha Christie was the queen of this form. True Crime
For those wanting more realism in mysteries, true  crime novelizations are as real as it gets. Written in novel form,  these are true stories. Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood introduced  the genre and it has been popular ever since. Unlike the objective  style of nonfiction history, the true crime novel exposes thoughts  of characters and makes use of literary devices. Some critics contend  that such recreations play with historical facts. Mystery novels generally follow the exploits of an investigator, often  through the eyes of a third person. True crime has to follow the experiences  of real people — you cannot invent a Dr. Watson or Archie Goodwin  to tell the tale. Criminal’s Persective: