detective fiction

subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective investigates a crime
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detective fiction
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detective fiction

Summary

detective fiction is a fiction genre[1]. It draws 524 Wikipedia views per month (fiction_genre category, ranking #20 of 59).[2]

Key Facts

  • detective fiction's image is recorded as Paget holmes.png[3].
  • detective fiction's instance of is recorded as fiction genre[4].
  • detective fiction's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85037260[5].
  • detective fiction's subclass of is recorded as crime fiction[6].
  • detective fiction's subclass of is recorded as mystery fiction[7].
  • detective fiction's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00571582[8].
  • detective fiction's Commons category is recorded as Crime fiction[9].
  • detective fiction's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 3577[10].
  • detective fiction's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/028v3[11].
  • detective fiction's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Detective fiction[12].
  • detective fiction's main subject is recorded as criminal investigation[13].
  • detective fiction's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300252918[14].
  • detective fiction's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 808.83872[15].
  • detective fiction's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000277847[16].
  • detective fiction's partially coincident with is recorded as mystery fiction[17].
  • detective fiction's partially coincident with is recorded as murder mystery[18].
  • detective fiction's different from is recorded as detective[19].
  • detective fiction's different from is recorded as detective literature[20].
  • detective fiction's different from is recorded as police film[21].
  • detective fiction's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00026637n[22].
  • detective fiction's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 5215722[23].
  • detective fiction's Quora topic ID is recorded as Detective-Fiction[24].
  • detective fiction's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as detective-fiction[25].
  • detective fiction's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26].
  • detective fiction's Krugosvet article is recorded as kultura_i_obrazovanie/literatura/DETEKTIV.html[27].

Why It Matters

detective fiction draws 524 Wikipedia views per month (fiction_genre category, ranking #20 of 59).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Library of Congress Subject Headings. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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