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en-wikipedia-org-9097		Detective fiction - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	9648	933	69	Literary critic Catherine Ross Nickerson credits Louisa May Alcott with creating the second-oldest work of modern detective fiction, after only Poe's Dupin stories themselves, with the 1865 thriller "V.V., or Plots and Counterplots." A short story published anonymously by Alcott, the story concerns a Scottish aristocrat who tries to prove that a mysterious woman has killed his fiancée and cousin. One of the primary contributors to this style was Dashiell Hammett with his famous private investigator character, Sam Spade.[46] 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."[46] "Told in stark and sometimes elegant language through the unemotional eyes of new hero-detectives, these stories were an American phenomenon."[17]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9097.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9097.txt