Abstract
The article focuses on the investigation of detective fiction in general and detective stories in particular which in this research is understood as a narrative where the plot hinges on a crime that the characters investigate and attempt to solve. The research also deals with various genre types of detective stories, such as police-department procedurals, hardboiled, locked room mysteries, cosy mysteries. Special attention is paid to the genre development of detective stories from a historical perspective. It is worth underlining that the period between World War I and World War II (the 1920s and 1930s) is generally referred to as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The purpose of the study is to highlight the main plot elements of a cosy mystery, such as the protagonist, the antagonist, the setting, the crime event, and definite narrative mechanisms involved in a story.
Highlights
Today crime fiction is still extremely popular due to the works of such writers as: E.A
There are many synonymic terms used to define crime fiction and especially the detective story subgenre. It is a well-known fact that detective fiction or detective story is one of the subgenres of crime fiction (Geherin, 1999) in which a detective − either professional, amateur or retired − investigates a crime, often murder
The present author has attempted to demonstrate the importance of a systematic explication of the specifics of plot structure elements in Agatha Christie cosy mysteries
Summary
Today crime fiction is still extremely popular due to the works of such writers as: E.A. In this research a detective story is understood as a narrative which plot hinges on a crime that the characters investigate and attempt to solve The precursor of this subgenre is Edgar Allan Poe, the author of the famous story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”. Agatha Christie produced long series of books (stories, short stories, novels, plays) featuring her detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, amongst others, and usually including a complex puzzle for the reader to try to unravel. She and other authors from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction have created a legacy of detective novels based on gathering clues and. Let’s analyze deeper genre peculiarities of some cosy mysteries by Agatha Christie (Babelyuk, 2019a)
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