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Historical Mystery
The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction. These works are set in a time period considered historical from the author's perspective, and the central plot involves the solving of a mystery or crime (usually murder). Though works combining these genres have existed since at least the early 1900s, many credit Ellis Peters's Cadfael Chronicles (1977-1994) for popularizing what would become known as the historical mystery.
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He reached for another cigarette and headed toward the Old Colony Tap. Maybe his answers were in a bottle of beer. He had never found them there before, but there was always a first time.
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― Bound Brook Pond
― Bound Brook Pond
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Well, that's no secret, you ought to know that pretty much everybody in Bound Brook is related to everybody else. My father used to say that you couldn't throw a stone without hitting a relative, and sometimes that's just what you felt like doing.
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― Murder at Bound Brook: Cape Cod Mystery
― Murder at Bound Brook: Cape Cod Mystery
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