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83-855: Literary prize The Hammett Prize is awarded annually by the International Association of Crime Writers , North American Branch (IACW/NA) to a Canadian or US citizen or permanent resident for a book in English in the field of crime writing . Established in 1991, it is named after crime-writer Dashiell Hammett . Recipients [ edit ] Prize winners and finalists Year Author Title Result Ref. 1991 Elmore Leonard Maximum Bob Winner Jerome Charyn Elsinore Finalist Norman Mailer Harlot’s Ghost Finalist Paul West The Women of Whitechapel & Jack

166-447: A " whodunit " murder mystery with multiple plot twists . The story has detective fiction elements. Two other Arabian Nights stories, "The Merchant and the Thief" and "Ali Khwaja", contain two of the earliest fictional detectives , who uncover clues and present evidence to catch or convict a criminal, with the story unfolding in normal chronology and the criminal already being known to

249-2784: A Laughing God Finalist Robert Noah The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa Finalist 1999 Martin Cruz Smith Havana Bay Winner James Lee Burke Heartwood Finalist Peter Robinson In a Dry Season Finalist Robert Crais L.A. Requiem Finalist Scott Turow Personal Injuries Finalist 2000 Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin Winner Brad Smith One-Eyed Jacks Finalist Joe R. Lansdale The Bottoms Finalist Scott Phillips The Ice Harvest Finalist Stephen Hunter Hot Springs Finalist 2001 Alan Furst Kingdom of Shadows Winner Dennis Lehane Mystic River Finalist George Pelecanos Right as Rain Finalist Rob Reuland Hollowpoint Finalist T. Jefferson Parker Silent Joe Finalist 2002 Owen Parry Honor’s Kingdom Winner J. Robert Janes Flykiller Finalist James Lee Burke The Jolie Blon’s Bounce Finalist John Case The Eighth Day Finalist Walter Mosley Bad Boy Brawly Brown Finalist 2003 Carol Goodman The Seduction of Water Winner Dennis Lehane Shutter Island Finalist Giles Blunt The Delicate Storm Finalist Laura Lippman Every Secret Thing Finalist Michael Gruber Tropic of Night Finalist 2004 Chuck Hogan Prince of Thieves Winner Colin Harrison The Havana Room Finalist John Katzenbach The Madman's Tale Finalist Peter Robinson Playing with Fire Finalist T. Jefferson Parker California Girl Finalist 2005 Joseph Kanon Alibi Winner Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men Finalist Don Winslow The Power of

332-548: A change in American crime fiction. There was a shift into hard-boiled novels and their depictions of realism. Dashiell Hammett and his work, including Red Harvest (1929), offered a more realistic social perspective to crime fiction, referencing events such as the Great Depression . James M. Cain contributed The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934). This novel includes a married woman trying to murder her own husband with

415-419: A crime. Readers speak of crime fiction as a mode of escapism to cope with other aspects of their lives. Crime fiction provides distraction from readers' personal lives through a strong narrative at a comfortable distance. Forensic crime novels have been referred to as "distraction therapy", proposing that crime fiction can improve mental health and be considered as a form of treatment to prevent depression. In

498-521: A father of a daughter, and it hit close to home. According to Connelly, he didn't mean to write about the biggest fear of his life; it just came out that way. David Geherin states that Connelly "deliberately avoids ornate language, the kind that makes the reader stop and savor the choice of words or elegant phrasing. He doesn't want anything to inhibit the forward momentum he is working to create." Detective Bosch's life usually changes in harmony with Connelly's own life. When Connelly moved 3,000 miles across

581-594: A forerunner of Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes , appeared in works such as " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " (1841), " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt " (1842), and " The Purloined Letter " (1844). With his Dupin stories, Poe provided the framework for the classic detective story. The detective's unnamed companion is the narrator of the stories and a prototype for the character of Dr. Watson in later Sherlock Holmes stories. Wilkie Collins ' epistolary novel The Woman in White

664-478: A heart transplant and he saw what his friend was going through with survivor's guilt after the surgery. When asked if he had anything against the changes made to fit the big screen, Connelly simply replied: "If you take their money, it's their turn to tell the story". Connelly wrote another book featuring Bosch, Angels Flight (1999), before writing Void Moon (2000), a free-standing book about Las Vegas thief Cassie Black. In 2001, A Darkness More Than Night

747-514: A heavy locked chest along the Tigris River, and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph , Harun al-Rashid , who then has the chest broken open, only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces. Harun orders his vizier , Ja'far ibn Yahya , to solve the crime and find the murderer within three days, or be executed if he fails his assignment. The story has been described as

830-464: A hotel dishwasher, he witnessed a man throw an object into a hedge. Connelly decided to investigate and found that the object was a gun wrapped in a lumberjack shirt. After putting the gun back, he followed the man to a bar and then left to go home to tell his father. Later that night, Connelly brought the police down to the bar, but the man was already gone. This event introduced Connelly to the world of police officers and their lives, impressing him with

913-537: A job as a crime reporter at the Los Angeles Times . He moved to California in 1987 with his wife Linda McCaleb, whom he met while in college and married in April 1984. After moving to Los Angeles, Connelly went to see High Tower Court where Raymond Chandler 's character Philip Marlowe had lived (in his 1942 novel The High Window ), and Robert Altman had used for his film The Long Goodbye (1973). Connelly got

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996-553: A main supporting character in the Bosch novels The Crossing (2015) and The Wrong Side of Goodbye (2016). Connelly has won nearly every major award given to mystery writers, including the Edgar Award , Anthony Award , Macavity Award , Los Angeles Times Best Mystery/Thriller Award, Shamus Award , Dilys Award , Nero Award , Barry Award , Audie Award , Ridley Award, Maltese Falcon Award (Japan), .38 Caliber Award (France),

1079-535: A much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes (1938), and Ira Levin 's (born 1929) science-fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil (1976), which was filmed in 1978 . Older novels can often be retrieved from the ever-growing Project Gutenberg database. Michael Connelly Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956 ) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction , notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller . Connelly

1162-612: A multi-part series in the New York Times Magazine . After some editing, it was published as a novel in 2007. In October 2008, Connelly wrote The Brass Verdict , which brought together Bosch and Haller for the first time. He followed that with The Scarecrow (May 2009), which brought back McEvoy as the lead character. 9 Dragons , a novel taking Bosch to Hong Kong, was published in October 2009. The Reversal (October 2010), reunites Bosch & Haller as they work together under

1245-613: A mystery writer. Connelly went home and read all of Chandler's works featuring Philip Marlowe , and decided to transfer to the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications , major in journalism, and minor in creative writing. After graduating from the University of Florida in 1980, Connelly got a job as a crime beat writer at the Daytona Beach News-Journal , where he worked for almost two years until he went to

1328-402: A reporter to write full-time. Michael Connelly received a good deal of publicity in 1994, when President Bill Clinton came out of a bookstore carrying a copy of The Concrete Blonde in front of the waiting cameras. A meeting was set up between the two at Los Angeles International Airport . In 1996, Connelly wrote The Poet , his first book not to feature Bosch, instead the protagonist

1411-442: A series in 1999 entitled "Pan Classic Crime", which includes a handful of novels by Eric Ambler , but also American Hillary Waugh 's Last Seen Wearing ... . In 2000, Edinburgh -based Canongate Books started a series called "Canongate Crime Classics" —both whodunnits and roman noir about amnesia and insanity —and other novels. However, books brought out by smaller publishers such as Canongate Books are usually not stocked by

1494-465: A steamy sex scene between Sharon Stone and William Baldwin straight from the 1993 movie , and again, Bret Easton Ellis 's American Psycho (1991). Bloomsbury Publishing PLC , though, have launched what they call "Bloomsbury Film Classics"—a series of original novels on which feature films were based. This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White 's novel The Wheel Spins (1936), which Alfred Hitchcock —before he went to Hollywood—turned into

1577-412: A still from the movie on the front cover and the film credits on the back cover of the book—yet another marketing strategy aimed at those cinemagoers who may want to do both: first read the book and then watch the film (or vice versa). Recent examples include Patricia Highsmith 's The Talented Mr. Ripley (originally published in 1955), Ira Levin 's Sliver (1991), with the cover photograph depicting

1660-508: A story forward in order to unravel mysteries. Likewise, the feature of detectives was popularized by Edgar Allan Poe and Conan Doyle . Hard-boiled detective stories attracted a decent amount of attention to the genre in America and France as well. Within crime fiction, it can also be common to use dark themes from real life, such as slavery , organized crime , and more. Aside from general themes, referencing instances of crime in real life

1743-528: Is Agatha Christie , whose texts, originally published between 1920 and her death in 1976, are available in UK and US editions in all English-speaking nations. Christie's works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple , have given her the title the Queen of Crime, and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre. Her most famous novels include Murder on

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1826-487: Is Florida -based author Carl Hiaasen , who has been publishing books since 1981, all of which are readily available. From time to time, publishing houses decide, for commercial purposes, to revive long-forgotten authors, and reprint one or two of their more commercially successful novels. Apart from Penguin Books , which for this purpose have resorted to their old green cover and dug out some of their vintage authors. Pan started

1909-506: Is also common in several works of crime fiction. These reflections of reality can be expressed in many ways. For instance, crime fiction in Spain expressed grievances with authority, which was opposite to the instances in Japan that credited the government's functionality. Espionage is another prominent inclusion in many works of crime fiction. It includes the use of political intrigue, morality, and

1992-519: Is from 1827 ; another early full-length short story in the genre is The Rector of Veilbye by Danish author Steen Steensen Blicher , published in 1829. A further example of crime detection can be found in Letitia Elizabeth Landon 's story The Knife , published in 1832, although here the truth remains in doubt at the end. Better known are the earlier dark works of Edgar Allan Poe . His brilliant and eccentric detective C. Auguste Dupin ,

2075-451: Is going. The books often reference real-world events, such as the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the September 11 attacks . Events that might seem of minor significance are included in some of the books, because of Connelly’s personal interest in them. For example, City of Bones , in which Detective Bosch investigates the murder of an 11-year-old boy, was written during Connelly's early years as

2158-460: Is the bestselling author of 38 novels and one work of non-fiction, with over 74 million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into 40 languages. His first novel, The Black Echo , won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly's 1997 novel, Blood Work . In March 2011,

2241-439: Is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as historical fiction and science fiction , but the boundaries are indistinct. Crime fiction has several subgenres , including detective fiction (such as the whodunit ), courtroom drama , hard-boiled fiction, and legal thrillers . Proto-science and crime fictions have been composed across history, and in this category can be placed texts as varied as

2324-579: The Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel in 1981. There, he covered the crime beat during the South Florida cocaine wars. He stayed with the paper for a few years and in 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of the 1985 Delta Flight 191 plane crash, which story earned Connelly a place as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize . The honor also brought Connelly

2407-660: The Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia , the Mahabharata from ancient India , the Book of Tobit , Urashima Tarō from ancient Japan , the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ), and more. One example of a story of this genre is the medieval Arabic tale of " The Three Apples ", one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights . In this tale, a fisherman discovers

2490-590: The Father Brown short stories, and Henry Christopher Bailey . The Golden Age also had roots in the US. As used by S. S. Van Dine , fictional character Philo Vance also took advantage of an inflated personality and a high-class background in a plethora of novels. In 1929, Father Ronald Knox wrote the ‘Detective Story Decalogue,’ mentioning some conditions of the era. Early foreshadowing and functioning roles for characters were discussed, as well as other items. Ellery Queen

2573-635: The Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (France) and Premio Bancarella Award (Italy). In 2012, The Black Box won the world's most lucrative crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing worth €125,000. He received the Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2018 from the Crime Writers' Association . When starting a book, he says, the story is not always clear, but Connelly has “a hunch” as to where it

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2656-511: The Mystery Writers of America 's Edgar Award for Best first Novel . The book is partly based on a true crime and is the first one featuring Connelly's primary recurring character, Los Angeles Police Department Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch , a man who, according to Connelly, shares few similarities with the author himself. Connelly named Bosch after the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch , known for his paintings full of sin and redemption, such as

2739-681: The Wayback Machine Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hammett_Prize&oldid=1257841530 " Categories : Mystery and detective fiction awards Awards established in 1991 1991 establishments in the United States English-language literary awards Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use mdy dates from May 2024 Articles with hCards Webarchive template wayback links Crime writer It

2822-640: The "Grand Master" of 20th-century Chinese detective fiction, translated Sherlock Holmes into classical and vernacular Chinese. In the late 1910s, Cheng began writing his own detective fiction series, Sherlock in Shanghai , mimicking Conan Doyle's style, but relating better to a Chinese audience. During the Mao era , crime fiction was suppressed and mainly Soviet-styled and anticapitalist. In the post-Mao era, crime fiction in China focused on corruption and harsh living conditions during

2905-555: The 19th century was crucial in popularising crime fiction and related genres. Literary 'variety' magazines, such as Strand , McClure's , and Harper's , quickly became central to the overall structure and function of popular fiction in society, providing a mass-produced medium that offered cheap, illustrated publications that were essentially disposable. Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day—e.g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens —Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in

2988-638: The Bennetts Finalist Chuck Hogan Gangland Finalist 2023 Colson Whitehead Crook Manifesto Winner Gail Anderson-Dargatz The Almost Widow Finalist Sterling Watson Night Letter Finalist Clémence Michallon The Quiet Tenant Finalist Margaret Verble Stealing Finalist References [ edit ] ^ "Mystery Book Awards" . Burnaby Public Library . Archived from

3071-2728: The City of the Dead Finalist Thomas Perry The Informant Finalist 2012 Howard Owen Oregon Hill Winner G. Willow Wilson Alif the Unseen Finalist Jim Lynch Truth Like the Sun Finalist Kurt Palka Patient Number 7 Finalist William Landay Defending Jacob Finalist 2013 Richard Lange Angel Baby Winner Craig Davidson Cataract City Finalist George P. Pelecanos The Double Finalist Heywood Gould Green Light for Murder Finalist Lisa Moore Caught Finalist 2014 Stephen King Mr. Mercedes Winner James Lee Burke Wayfaring Stranger Finalist Krista Foss Smoke River Finalist Peyton Marshall Goodhouse Finalist Tod Goldberg Gangsterland Finalist 2015 Lisa Sandlin The Do-Right Winner Harlan Coben The Stranger Finalist Harry Brandt The Whites Finalist Michael J. McCann Sorrow Lake Finalist Stu Strumwasser The Organ Broker Finalist 2016 Domenic Stansberry The White Devil Winner Bob Truluck The Big Nothing Finalist Duane Swierczynski Revolver Finalist Nicholas Petrie The Drifter Finalist Steve Hamilton The Second Life of Nick Mason Finalist 2017 Stephen Mack Jones August Snow Winner Ernest J. Gaines The Tragedy of Brady Sims Finalist Karen Dionne The Marsh King’s Daughter Finalist Randall Silvis Two Days Gone Finalist 2018 Lou Berney November Road Winner Lisa Unger Under My Skin Finalist Robert Olen Butler Paris in

3154-662: The Dark Finalist Sam Wiebe Cut You Down Finalist William Boyle The Lonely Witness Finalist 2019 Jane Stanton Hitchcock Bluff Winner Jonathan Moore Blood Relations Finalist Nicholas Meyer The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols Finalist Peter Houlahan Norco ’80: The True Story of

3237-494: The Dashiell Hammett Prize" . Kirkus Reviews . Archived from the original on October 7, 2022 . Retrieved May 15, 2024 . ^ Glyer, Mike (April 14, 2022). "Crime Fiction Awards Headlines" . File 770 . Archived from the original on December 1, 2022 . Retrieved May 15, 2024 . ^ patti (June 17, 2022). "2022 Hammett Prize -" . Nightstand Book Reviews . Archived from

3320-1514: The Dog Finalist John Brady Islandbridge Finalist Martin Límon The Door to Bitterness Finalist 2006 Dan Fesperman The Prisoner of Guantánamo Winner Bill Pronzini The Crimes of Jordan Wise Finalist Jim Nisbet Dark Companion Finalist John Case Ghost Dancer Finalist Robert Ward Four Kinds of Rain Finalist 2007 Gil Adamson The Outlander Winner Katie Estill Dahlia’s Gone Finalist Martin Cruz Smith Stalin’s Ghost Finalist Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen's Union Finalist Michael Dibdin End Games Finalist 2008 George Pelecanos The Turnaround Winner Abraham Rodríguez South by South Bronx Finalist Colin Harrison The Finder Finalist David Levien City of

3403-1701: The Heart Finalist Pinckney Benedict Dogs of God Finalist Steve Lopez Third and Indiana Finalist 1995 Mary Willis Walker Under the Beetle's Cellar Winner Andrew Klavan True Crime Finalist Michael Connelly The Last Coyote Finalist Susan Taylor Chehak Smithereens Finalist Thomas H. Cook Breakheart Hill Finalist 1996 Martin Cruz Smith Rose Winner James W. Hall Buzz Cut Finalist Michael Connelly The Poet Finalist Peter Robinson Innocent Graves Finalist Stephen Solomita Damaged Goods Finalist 1997 William Deverell Trial of Passion Winner Bill Pronzini A Wasteland of Strangers Finalist James Lee Burke Cimarron Rose Finalist L. R. Wright Acts of Murder Finalist Michael Connelly Trunk Music Finalist 1998 William Hoffman Tidewater Blood Winner Daniel Woodrell Tomato Red Finalist Domenic Stansberry The Last Days of Il Duce Finalist Kevin McColley Praying to

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3486-558: The Mao era (such as the Cultural Revolution ). The Golden Age, which spanned from the 1920s to 1954, was a period of time featuring the creation of renowned works by several authors. Many of these authors were British. Agatha Christie wrote The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and The Murder at the Vicarage (1930). These novels commonly prioritized the allure of exploring mysteries in

3569-1558: The Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History Finalist William Bayer The Murals Finalist 2020 David Joy When These Mountains Burn Winner Cara Black Three Hours in Paris Finalist David Heska Wanbli Weiden Winter Counts Finalist Nev March Murder in Old Bombay Finalist Sarah Stewart Taylor The Mountains Wild Finalist 2021 S. A. Cosby Razorblade Tears Winner William Deverell Stung Finalist James Kestrel Five Decembers Finalist Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle Finalist Robin Yocum The Sacrifice of Lester Yates Finalist 2022 Samantha Jayne Allen Pay Dirt Road Winner Brad Smith Copperhead Road Finalist Eli Cranor Don't Know Tough Finalist Lisa Scottoline What Happened to

3652-513: The Orient Express (1934), Death on the Nile (1937), and the world's best-selling mystery And Then There Were None (1939). Other less successful, contemporary authors who are still writing have seen reprints of their earlier works, due to current overwhelming popularity of crime fiction texts among audiences. One example is Val McDermid , whose first book appeared as far back as 1987; another

3735-1171: The Ripper Finalist Robertson Davies Murther & Walking Spirits Finalist 1992 Alice Hoffman Turtle Moon Winner Daniel Woodrell The Ones You Do Special mention Donald E. Westlake Humans Finalist Jane Stanton Hitchcock Trick of the Eye Finalist Walter Mosley White Butterfly Finalist 1993 James Crumley The Mexican Tree Duck Winner Michael Connelly The Black Ice Finalist Randall Silvis An Occasional Hell Finalist Sandra West Prowell By Evil Means Finalist Steven Saylor Catilina’s Riddle Finalist 1994 James Lee Burke Dixie City Jam Winner Laura Joh Rowland Shinjū Finalist Mikal Gilmore Shot in

3818-1172: The Sun Finalist Heywood Gould Leading Lady Finalist 2009 Jedediah Berry The Manual of Detection Winner Ace Atkins Devil’s Garden Finalist George Pelecanos The Way Home Finalist Megan Abbott Bury Me Deep Finalist Walter Mosley The Long Fall Finalist 2010 Olen Steinhauer The Nearest Exit Winner Jonathan Eig Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster Finalist T. Jefferson Parker Iron River Finalist Tom Franklin Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Finalist 2011 James Sallis The Killer Is Dying Winner James Lee Burke Feast Day of Fools Finalist Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table Finalist Sara Gran Claire DeWitt and

3901-572: The assistance of a potential suitor. This theme extends to his other work, Double Indemnity (1934). Such elements of the book were a reference to the Gray and Snyder trial. Raymond Chandler was a significant author who managed to see some works made into films. In 1944, he argued for the genre to be seen critically in his essay from ‘ The Simple Art of Murder .’ Crime fiction provides unique psychological impacts on readers and enables them to become mediated witnesses through identifying with eyewitnesses of

3984-399: The audience. The latter involves a climax where titular detective protagonist Ali Khwaja presents evidence from expert witnesses in a court. " The Hunchback's Tale " is another early courtroom drama , presented as a suspenseful comedy. The earliest known modern crime fiction is E. T. A. Hoffmann 's 1819 novella "Mademoiselle de Scudéri". Also, Thomas Skinner Surr 's anonymous Richmond

4067-649: The banner of the state on the retrial of a child murderer. The Haller novel The Fifth Witness was published in 2011. The Drop , which refers in part to the "Deferred Retirement Option Plan" that was described in the novel The Brass Verdict (2008), was published in November 2011. The next Bosch novel was The Black Box (2012). Connelly's subsequent novel, a legal thriller, was a return to Haller: The Gods of Guilt (2013). His next book returned to Bosch in The Burning Room (2014), and then Connelly used Haller as

4150-613: The country, Bosch's experiences sent him in a new direction in City of Bones , written at that time. According to Connelly, his "real" job is to write about Bosch, and he brought McCaleb and Bosch together in A Darkness More Than Night in order to look at Bosch from another perspective and to keep the character interesting. Connelly often changes perspectives between characters in his novels. In Void Moon , Connelly frequently alternates between following protagonist Cassie Black and antagonist Jack Karch. In Fair Warning , Connelly outright changes

4233-461: The country. The Spanish writers emphasized the corruption and ineptitude of the police, and depicted the authorities and the wealthy in very negative terms. In China, crime fiction is a major literary tradition, with works dating to the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties. Modern Chinese crime fiction emerged from the 1890s, and was also influenced by translations of foreign works. Cheng Xiaoqing , considered

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4316-463: The crimes are usually unsolved, and clues are left for the reader to decipher. Famous writers include Leonardo Sciascia , Umberto Eco , and Carlo Emilio Gadda . In Spain, The Nail and Other Tales of Mystery and Crime was published by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón in 1853. Crime fiction in Spain (also curtailed in Francoist Spain ) took on some special characteristics that reflected the culture of

4399-531: The existence of spies. Prior media used the Cold War for inspiration and provided commentary on such events. Examples include numerous works by John le Carré and Gorky Park (1981), which was written by Martin Cruz Smith . Inspiration can be drawn from the legal system around the world, with varying degrees of realism. In these cases, a sense of morality and the more dubious parts of society are explored based on

4482-455: The genre was baptized with the term libri gialli or yellow books. The genre was outlawed by the Fascists during WWII , but exploded in popularity after the war, especially influenced by the American hard-boiled school of crime fiction. A group of mainstream Italian writers emerged, who used the detective format to create an antidetective or postmodern novel in which the detectives are imperfect,

4565-511: The genre. Many stories often begin when the crime has already occurred. Such fiction also tends to draw from the cultural aspects in which the work originated, whether from recent events or from a general consensus and viewpoints. The use of serial killers and unreliable narrators exists in a decent variety of crime fiction as well. The plot-puzzle formula, which was frequent in the Golden Age, makes use of potential hints and solutions to drive

4648-425: The history of crime fiction, some authors have been reluctant to publish their novels under their real names. More recently, some publish pseudonymously because of the belief that since the large booksellers are aware of their historical sales figures, and command a certain degree of influence over publishers, the only way to "break out" of their current advance numbers is to publish as someone with no track record. In

4731-582: The huge popularity of this genre. A precursor was Paul Féval , whose series Les Habits Noirs (1862–67) features Scotland Yard detectives and criminal conspiracies. The best-selling crime novel of the 19th century was Fergus Hume 's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), set in Melbourne, Australia. The evolution of the print mass media in the United Kingdom and the United States in the latter half of

4814-437: The larger bookshops and overseas booksellers. The British Library has also (since 2012) started republishing "lost" crime classics, with the collection referred to on their website as the "British Library Crime Classics series". Sometimes, older crime novels are revived by screenwriters and directors rather than publishing houses. In many such cases, publishers then follow suit and release a so-called "film tie-in" edition showing

4897-608: The late 1930s and 1940s, British County Court Judge Arthur Alexander Gordon Clark (1900–1958) published a number of detective novels under the alias Cyril Hare , in which he made use of his profoundly extensive knowledge of the English legal system. When he was still young and unknown, award-winning British novelist Julian Barnes (born 1946) published some crime novels under the alias Dan Kavanagh. Other authors take delight in cherishing their alter egos ; Ruth Rendell (1930–2015) wrote one sort of crime novels as Ruth Rendell and another type as Barbara Vine ; John Dickson Carr also used

4980-588: The manager of the building to promise to phone him if the apartment ever became available. Ten years later, the manager tracked Connelly down, and Connelly decided to rent the place. This apartment served as a place to write for several years. After three years at the Los Angeles Times , Connelly wrote his first published novel, The Black Echo (1992), after previously writing two unfinished novels that he did not attempt to get published. He sold The Black Echo to Little, Brown to be published in 1992 and won

5063-509: The monthly Strand in the United Kingdom. The series quickly attracted a wide and passionate following on both sides of the Atlantic, and when Doyle killed off Holmes in " The Final Problem ", the public outcry was so great, and the publishing offers for more stories so attractive, that he was reluctantly forced to resurrect him. In Italy, early translations of English and American stories and local works were published in cheap yellow covers, thus

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5146-417: The movie adaptation of Connelly's novel The Lincoln Lawyer starred Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller . Connelly was the President of the Mystery Writers of America from 2003 to 2004. Connelly was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , the second eldest child of W. Michael Connelly, a property developer , and Mary Connelly, a homemaker . He is of Irish ancestry. According to Connelly, his father

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5893-653: The painting Hell , a copy of which hangs on the office wall behind Connelly's computer. Connelly describes his own work as a big canvas with all the characters of his books floating across it as currents on a painting. Sometimes they are bound to collide, creating cross currents. This is something that Connelly creates by bringing back characters from previous books and letting them play a part in books written five or six years after first being introduced. Connelly went on to write three more novels about Detective Bosch— The Black Ice (1993), The Concrete Blonde (1994), and The Last Coyote (1995)—before quitting his job as

5976-566: The plot over in-depth character development. Dorothy L. Sayers contributed the Wimsey novels. Her work focused on the spectacle of crime deduction. She also displayed an exaggerated form of aristocratic society, straying from a more realistic story. Other novelists tapped into this setting, such as Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh ; Allingham, Christie, Marsh and Sayers are known as the Queens of Crime . Other British authors are G. K. Chesterton with

6059-446: The pseudonym Carter Dickson . Author Evan Hunter (which itself was a pseudonym) wrote his crime fiction under the name of Ed McBain. As crime fiction has expanded, there have been many common tropes that emerge from this category of fiction. Such occurrences can appear in a variety of subgenres and media. While the format may vary across different forms of crime fiction, there are many elements that are generally consistent throughout

6142-493: The rules that the work provides. Melville Davisson Post ’s Rudolph Mason: The Strange Schemes (1896) and Harper Lee ’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) are notable examples. Additionally, stories like Double Indemnity (1934) are based on cases from reality. Only a select few authors have achieved the status of "classics" for their published works. A classic is any text that can be received and accepted universally, because they transcend context. A popular, well-known example

6225-599: The way they worked. Connelly had planned on following his father's early choice of career in building construction and started out at the University of Florida in Gainesville , at the Rinker School of Building Construction , studying construction management. After earning grades that were lower than expected, Connelly went to see Robert Altman 's film The Long Goodbye (1973). The film, based on Raymond Chandler 's eponymous 1953 novel , inspired Connelly to want to become

6308-522: Was a frustrated artist who encouraged his children to want to succeed in life and was a risk taker who alternated between success and failure in his pursuit of a career. Connelly's mother was a fan of crime fiction and introduced her son to the world of mystery novels . At age 12, Connelly moved with his family from Philadelphia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida , where he attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School . At age 16, Connelly's interest in crime and mystery escalated when, on his way home from his work as

6391-606: Was a sequel to The Poet but featured Bosch instead of McEvoy. Together with this book, a DVD was released called Blue Neon Night: Michael Connelly's Los Angeles , in which film Connelly presents some of the places in Los Angeles that are frequently featured in his books. The Closers , published in May 2005, was the 11th Bosch novel. It was followed by The Lincoln Lawyer in October, Connelly's first legal novel; it features defense attorney Mickey Haller , Bosch's half-brother. The book

6474-410: Was featured in several novels written by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee , serving as both a character and pen name. In such novels, clues may be analyzed by the protagonist in tandem with the viewer, generating the possibility of understanding the narrative before it is revealed in the book. Past the Golden Age, events such as the Great Depression and the transition between World Wars ushered in

6557-464: Was made into a film in 2011, starring Matthew McConaughey as Haller. After releasing Crime Beat (2004), a non-fiction book about Connelly's experiences as a crime reporter, Connelly went back to Bosch with Echo Park (2006). This book sets its opening scene in the High Tower Apartment that Connelly rented and wrote from. His next Bosch story, The Overlook , was originally published as

6640-419: Was published in 1860, while The Moonstone (1868) is often thought to be his masterpiece. French author Émile Gaboriau 's Monsieur Lecoq (1868) laid the groundwork for the methodical, scientifically minded detective. The evolution of locked-room mysteries was one of the landmarks in the history of crime fiction. The Sherlock Holmes mysteries of Doyle's are said to have been singularly responsible for

6723-541: Was published, in which Connelly united Bosch and McCaleb to solve a crime together, before releasing two books in 2002. The first, City of Bones , was the eighth Bosch novel, and the other, Chasing the Dime , was a non-series novel. In 2001, Connelly left California for Tampa Bay, Florida , together with his wife and daughter, so that both he and his wife could be closer to their families. His novels still took place in Los Angeles. In 2003, another Bosch novel, Lost Light ,

6806-457: Was published. With this book, a CD was released, Dark Sacred Night, the Music of Harry Bosch , featuring some of the jazz music that both Connelly and the fictional character Bosch listen to. While writing Connelly listens exclusively to instrumental jazz, though, because it does not have intrusive vocals, and because the improvisational playing inspires his writing. The Narrows , published in 2004,

6889-497: Was reporter Jack McEvoy. The book was a success. In 1997, Connelly returned to Bosch in Trunk Music before writing another book, Blood Work (1997), about a different character, FBI agent Terry McCaleb . Blood Work was made into a film in 2002, directed by Clint Eastwood , who also played McCaleb, an agent with a transplanted heart, in pursuit of his donor's murderer. The book came together after one of Connelly's friends had

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