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MYSTERY AND CRIME STORIES

Directions: Print out this page (or get a copy from your teacher) Use the website: http://www.MysteryNet.com/timeline/ to find the answers to the questions below.

1.Sophocles and Euripides were playwrights who entertained people with mysteries in what country?

2. Who introduced mystery fiction's first detective and in what year?

3. What is the name of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective?

4. Who is the best known mystery writer?

5. Ellery Queen is a "pseudonym" used by which two American detective fiction authors?

6. What's a pseudonym?

7. Popular magazines in the 20's that published "hard-boiled" adventure or detective stories were known as what type?

8. Earl Derr Bigger is a writer that created a character who used "sage wisdom of the Orient" to solve mysteries-what is that character's name?

9. Erle Stanley Gardner created the character, Perry Mason. What was the name of the first book?

10. Name a famous television mystery show.