History of Mystery

First true English detective author

Wilkie Collins

The first woman to write a detective novel

Anna Katherine Green

The father of the American mystery story

Edgar Allen Poe

The name of Edgar Allen Poe’s famous detective

Auguste Dupin

Era of Sherlock Holmes

1870s-1900s

Dashielle Hammet’s fictional detective

Sam Spade

The creator of Mike Hammer

Mickey Spillane

Gardner’s main detective

Perry Mason

Agatha Christie’s quirky detective

Hercule Piorot

The Big Three

Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, and Ellery Queen

The most famous detective Pulp magazine was

The Black Mask

The “Golden Age” of mystery

1920-1940

Sam Spade was immortalized in a 1941 film named

The Maltese Falcon

Popular mystery radio program of the 40s

The Adventures of Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen’s fictional detective was

Ellery Queen

The popular mystery game

Clue

Two popular children’s mysteries

Nancy Drew , the Hardy Boys, and Boxcar Children

The most successful police procedural writer was

Ed McBain