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Detective novels

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 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. Romans and Greek had elements of mystery in their literature and the Middle Ages in the Bible was read about the prophet Daniel who solved the mystery of Susanna and the Elders, the mysteries solved of One Thousand and One Nights in the ancient Arabic literature. In the eighteenth century readers were craving for the trendy gothic novels,  a mixture of mystery, terror and supernatural elements such as the eighteenth century novels of "The Castle of Otranto" by Ho...