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I. Author

II. Mystery Fiction

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The story “Waiting for the Police”

was written by J. Jefferson Farjeon, a British writer. He is best known for his mystery stories and is one of the first modern authors to mix romance and humor with crime.

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FARJEON, JOSEPH JEFFERSON (June 4, 1883—June 6, 1955)

 

English novelist, playwright, and journalist, was born in London into literary circumstances. His father, Benjamin Farjeon, was a well-known novelist and he was the brother of the children’s writer Eleanor

Farjeon and the playwright Herbert Farjeon.

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Although known for his keen humor and flashing wit, he was no stranger to the sinister and terrifying. The critic for the Saturday Review of Literature praised Death in the Inkwell, one of his later books, calling it an “amusing, satirical, and frequently hair-raising yarn of an author who got dangerously mixed up with his imaginary characters. Tricky.”

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II.II. Mystery Mystery FictionFiction

Mystery fiction is a distinct sub genre of detective fiction that entails the occurrence of an unknown event which requires the protagonist to make known (or solve). It is similar to the whodunit in that the clues may often be given to the reader by subtle means. Though it is often confused with detective fiction, it does not require a crime to have occurred or the involvement of law enforcement.

It often involves a suspense or a surprising ending as the climax in order to draw the reader’s attention.

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The genre has its beginning in the riddles told in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Similar stories were told in the Middle Agesbut the genre didn’t really begin to develop until the detective stories of Edgar Allan Poe. The first true mystery novel is considered to be The Woman in White (1860) by Wilkie Collins.

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