DETECTIVE STORIES
There is no area of the world that hasn’t tried producing its own version of the murder and detective story. It is important to stress that certain rules apply, however much relaxation has been affected in the areas of conventionality and (26. EXPECT) __________ . A detective story requires a crime, some puzzlement, and some kind of (27. SOLVE) __________. What is remarkable, though, is what different authors can make of the (28. ESSENCE) __________ features. Detective fiction has either a long or relatively short ancestry, depending on how one looks at it. However, most would agree that the genre was an (29. INVENT) __________ of Poe in 1871, with subsequent refinements by Conan Doyle in the 1890s. This start paved the way for the almost unimaginable amount and variety of work available today. It is (30. USUAL) __________indeed to find a “historical” detective story that isn’t destroyed by an (31. EXCESSIVE) __________ high dosage of period coloring; the two genes don’t blend easily, but seem instead, when fused together, to let themselves be swamped by simple romanticism or woodenness. Detective writers should approach with caution any period but their own. The least (32. PROBLEM) __________ way to tackle “historical” detective writing is to cast it in the form of parody.
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