What other genre is "The Moonstone" known as an early example of?
Police procedural
Historical fiction
High fantasy
Travel literature
Answer
Police procedural is a subgenre of crime fiction focusing on the detailed workings of a police organization solving a crime. Wilkie Collins's 1868 novel The Moonstone is generally regarded as the first police procedural novel. It employs inductive reasoning and scientific method in solving a crime, a technique later expanded and popularized by writers like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
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