Influential Novels
The 1st sensation-fiction text which also features the first female detective.
What is The Woman in White?
Allowed for the cheap production of books which made detective fiction more popular.
What is linotype?
“I have found it;” relates to the mindset of the second sleuth’s reveal.
What is eureka?
The Crying of Lot 49 provides an ironic take on the deity since his namesake rambles and does not communicate well.
Who is Toth?
John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
Who are The Beatles?
The most popular Newgate novel; focuses on the title character's escape from prison and loyalty to his friends.
What is Jack Sheppard?
Concept which explains that mysteries are organic systems due to every changing perceptions of clues.
What is informatics?
Abstract tools of a detective (i.e. psychology, profiling, and social conventions); Poirot’s “little grey cells”
What is behavioral science?
The first professional police force formed by the Fieldings in order to prevent corruption.
Who are the Bow Street Runners?
Mick, Keith, Charlie, and Ronnie.
Who are The (Rolling) Stones?
Fully atavistic work where human nature is fundamentally dark and selfish, so criminality is the default setting.
What is The Beggar's Opera?
The actual message system (code) constructed by a mystery (e.g. the L’Espanye’s were brutally murdered by a super-strong and agile culprit)
What is key text?
Genre which moved crime from the streets to aristocratic manors.
What is sensation fiction?
He invented the the first lie detector which quickly influenced detective-fiction authors.
Who is (Cesar) Lomboso?
Robert, Jimmy, John Paul, and John.
Who is Led Zepplin?
The 1st Newgate novel; the title character learns a life of crime while being falsely imprisoned.
What is Paul Clifford?
The manner in which an author depicts a narrative; essential for depicting a mystery which keeps the reveal last.
What is syuzhet?
Driblett’s warning to Maas about being “so concerned with words” relates to this system whereas we can only acquire meaning from words or symbols.
What is logocentricism?
The Cigar Girl whose murder Poe actually tried to solve.
Who is (Mary Cecilia) Rogers?
Roger, David, Nick, and Rick.
Who is Pink Floyd?
18th-Century text which makes an ameliorist criticism of the prison system.
What is Caleb Williams?
Measures blood pressure and pulse rate; 1st used in a court trial in 1906
What is a sphygmograph?
Type of reasoning most first sleuths actually predominantly use.
What is inductive?
"Theiftaker General" who manipulated the 18th-century legal system by arranging robberies, “capturing” the thief, and getting the reward.
Who is Jonathan Wild?
Roger, Pete, John, and Keith.
Who are The Who?