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BY RACHEL HOWZELL HALL
he mystery and crime-writing genre setits roots in detective novels, with early hits like by Charles Felix in 1862 and by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. In the 20th century, Agatha Christie popularized the whodunit; Dashiell Hammett, the hard-boiled subgenre; and Patricia Highsmith, suspense. If you searched for the top mystery writers of all