From Edgar Allan Poe to Agatha Christie and James Patterson, mysteries and detective fiction remain popular forms of entertainment. Stories of gumshoes, police detectives and amateur sleuths continue to capture the public's imagination after nearly two centuries and have been translated from novels and short stories to movies and television time and again. While these tales were the precursors to the modern police procedural, people keep coming back to the eccentric outsiders who often solve crimes with more unorthodox methods of investigation.
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