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Since the very beginning humanity has always tried to solve mysteries, tribes used to tell stories to solve mysteries around the fire in caves about their rough lives and the first civilisations that started the first writings either in hieroglyphs and cuneiform writings in clay tablets from the ancient civilizations of Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Egyptians and others had mystery stories or riddles like that one of the sphynx about the creature that lives on four, two and three legs that answers to the three ages of man.  Humanity has always been fascinated by riddles and mysteries, the tribes told their stories filled with mysteries and the first civilizations like Sumer, Babylon and Egypt also had riddles such as the one of the sphinx dealing with the different ages of man. In the United States the noteworthy poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote the first detective novel in “The Murder of Marie Roget”  The detective fiction in the United Kingdom which is named “cozy”...