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Crime fiction is a genre of literature that novelizes crimes and criminals. Much of what makes this genre so stimulating is the mental battle that ensues between writer and reader. As the writer reveals clues and works through the crime's mystery, readers try to solve it for themselves before the criminal is revealed at the end of the story.

Developed in the early 19th century, crime fiction has since become extremely popular, and the genre has had to grow into multiple subgenres. Some of the more common subgenres are whodunit fiction (the most common form, readers are provided clues that eventually reveal the criminal), legal thriller (characters are usually lawyers and cops), and inverted detective (the criminal is revealed at the beginning and then the story works back to it). Noir, urban, grime, and speculative also can fall into this.