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The early years of the 20th century produced a number of distinguished detective novels, among them mary roberts rineharts the circular staircase 1908 and g. This swedish author is considered to be one of the. Cains the postman always rings twice is a literary masterpiece with its spare prose invoking a savage, sexy, desperate world. The story begins with aspiring musketeer dartagnan offending. From 1920 on, the names of many fictional detectives became household words.
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