A study on the detective story


i. introduction


agatha christie is the most widely published writer of any time and in any language. only the bible and the plays of shakespeare have sold more edition than the murder mysteries.
one could ask, after reading the fragment quoted, a simple question why and we believe that the answer to this question would make an eloquent introduction to the present paper.
the xx-th century is coming to an end. literature worldwide has experienced all kinds of narrative structures if we are to refer only to prose along the time , from the total omniscience to what was called the death of the author. there are literary works which are not accessible to every one. it is here a question of taste and also of culture. but the detective fiction has gained so wide an audience to read and most of all it is entertaining.
such texts are a challenge for the reader who involves mentally in the solving of the mys...