id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7627 Mystery fiction - Wikipedia .html text/html 3450 367 64 Mystery fiction can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element and its logical solution such as a whodunit. Mystery fiction can be contrasted with hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism. An inverted detective story, also known as a "howcatchem", is a murder mystery fiction structure in which the commission of the crime is shown or described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator. His style of crime fiction came to be known as "hardboiled", which is described as a genre that "usually deals with criminal activity in a modern urban environment, a world of disconnected signs and anonymous strangers." "Told in stark and sometimes elegant language through the unemotional eyes of new hero-detectives, these stories were an American phenomenon." Detective, mystery, and crime fiction ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7627.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7627.txt