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The development history of mystery stories is not long. It began with the American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the first half of the 19th century. After the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle created the first Sherlock Holmes detective "A Study in Scarlet" in 1887, Sherlock Holmes was born in the world of mystery novels and became a classic of the era. In the next 40 years, the creation of mystery stories began to receive people's attention, and excellent writers continued to emerge. Until the end of the First World War, when people were tired of the war and wanted to put the pain caused by the war behind them, in order to satisfy people's desire for pleasure and entertainment, mystery stories were loved and sought after by readers in a timely manner. This period coincided with the great development of world economy and science and technology, and a new era of advocating science and technology made the special literary form of mystery stories meet the needs of human spiritual development, making mystery stories the darling of the world's development trend, and the golden age of mystery stories has truly arrived.