Finished challenge: Merely Mysteries

 Hosted by Musings of a bookish Kitty

Rules:

The focus of this challenge is to explore the different types of crime fiction out there.

I sign up for level:Down on Her/His Luck Gumshoe - Read two or more books falling into any of the sub-genres. Each book can be from the same sub-genre or can be varied among the different sub-genres. You pick the combination and the number of books.

 

 

I had somehardtime figuring the sub genres, but since I signed for the lowest level, I think I made it

The Whodunit

Locked Room Mystery

Cozy

Hard-boiled/Noir

The inverted detective story

The historical whodunnit -The Willow patern - Robert van Gulik, Murder in Canton - Robert van Gulik, The emperor's pearl - Robert van Gulik

The police procedural

The professional thriller

The spy novel

Caper stories

The psychologycal Suspense

Spoofs and Parodies - Less Angel - Zotov- While giving a real detective story with a twist, this book is full of humor and in the same time a parody of the real world

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