Information: - The Simple Art of Murder refers to hard - boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler 's critical essay , a magazine article , and his collection of short stories . The essay was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in December 1944 . The magazine article appeared in the Saturday Review of Literature , April 15 , 1950 . The article , somewhat rewritten , served to introduce the collection The Simple Art of Murder , 1950 ( Houghton Mifflin Co. ) , of eight of Chandler 's early stories pre-dating his first novel , The Big Sleep . The essay is considered a seminal piece of literary criticism . Although Chandler 's primary topic is the art ( and failings ) of detective fiction , he touches on general literature and modern society as well . The opening statement -- '' Fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic '' -- places Chandler in a lineage with earlier American Realists , in particular Mark Twain and his critique of James Fenimore Cooper , '' Fenimore Cooper 's Literary Offenses '' . Chandler dissects A. A. Milne 's The Red House Mystery much as Twain tears apart Cooper 's The Deerslayer , namely by revealing what is ignored , brushed over , and unrealistic . '' If the situation is false , '' Chandler writes , '' you can not even accept it as a light novel , for there is no story for the light novel to be about . '' He expands his criticism to the bulk of detective fiction , especially of the English variety which he complains is preoccupied with '' hand - wrought dueling pistols , curare and tropical fish . '' In addition to Milne , Chandler confronts Dame Agatha Christie , Dorothy Sayers , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , E. C. Bentley , and Freeman Wills Crofts . '' The English may not always be the best writers in the world , but they are incomparably the best dull writers . '' Chandler 's critique of the '' classic '' Golden Age detective story goes beyond a lack of realistic characters and plot ; Chandler complains about contrivances and formulas and an inability to move beyond them . The... - An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have traditionally been sub-classified as formal and informal. Formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length," whereas the informal essay is characterized by "the personal element (self-revelation, individual tastes and experiences, confidential manner), humor, graceful style, rambling structure, unconventionality or novelty of theme," etc. - Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler. Marlowe first appeared under that name in "The Big Sleep", published in 1939. Chandler's early short stories, published in pulp magazines like "Black Mask" and "Dime Detective", featured similar characters with names like "Carmady" and "John Dalmas". - A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. Some are private persons, and may be known as private investigators, as "The Eye That Never Sleeps", the motto of the Pinkerton Detective Agency or shortened to simply "private eyes". - A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). It may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths, called a "leaflet", or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and saddle stapled at the crease to make a simple book. - A novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story. - Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as historical fiction or science fiction, but the boundaries are indistinct. Crime fiction has multiple subgenres, including detective fiction (such as the whodunit), courtroom drama, hard-boiled fiction and legal thrillers. Suspense and mystery are key elements that are nearly ubiquitous to the genre. - A short story is a piece of prose fiction that can be read in one sitting. Emerging from earlier oral storytelling traditions in the 17th century, the short story has grown to encompass a body of work so diverse as to defy easy characterization. At its most prototypical the short story features a small cast of named characters, and focuses on a self-contained incident with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood. In doing so, short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components to a far greater degree than is typical of an anecdote, yet to a far lesser degree than a novel. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel, authors of both generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. - A screenplay writer, screenwriter for short, scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media such as films, television programs, comics or video games are based. - Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved. In a closed circle of suspects, each suspect must have a credible motive and a reasonable opportunity for committing the crime. The central character must be a detective who eventually solves the mystery by logical deduction from facts fairly presented to the reader. Sometimes mystery books are nonfictional. "Mystery fiction" can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element and its logical solution such as a whodunit. Mystery fiction can be contrasted with hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism. - Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series "" based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character were also produced. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and bestselling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre. Parker also wrote two other series based on an individual character: He wrote nine novels based on the character Jesse Stone and six novels based on the character Sunny Randall. - The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world's economy can decline. - Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detectiveeither professional or amateurinvestigates a crime, often murder. - Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. In their most general form these activities include the production of works of art, the criticism of art, the study of the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art. - In philosophy and logic, an argument is a series of statements typically used to persuade someone of something or to present reasons for accepting a conclusion. The general form of an argument in a natural language is that of premises (typically in the form of propositions, statements or sentences) in support of a claim: the conclusion. The structure of some arguments can also be set out in a formal language, and formally defined "arguments" can be made independently of natural language arguments, as in math, logic, and computer science. - Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s. The term "pulp" derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed; in contrast, magazines printed on higher quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was wide by high, and thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges. - Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 March 26, 1959) was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in "Black Mask," a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, "The Big Sleep", was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but "Playback" have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla, California. - The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles, California. - Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective stories). Derived from the romantic tradition which emphasized the emotions of apprehension, awe, horror and terror, hardboiled fiction deviates from that tradition in the detective's cynical attitude towards those emotions. The attitude is conveyed through the detective's inner monologue describing to the audience what he is doing and feeling. What object entity has the relation of 'genre' with the subject 'the simple art of murder'? Choices: - art - article - book - crime fiction - crime novel - criticism - detective - drama - economy - essay - fiction - genre - hardboiled - horror - horror and terror - logic - magazine - march - mass - mystery - mystery fiction - narrative - novel - pamphlet - philosophy - prose - romantic - science - science fiction - screenplay - short story - skill - suspense - video
The answer to this question is:
crime novel