A new series. Each quiz focuses on a specific genre with the questions in date order – a kind of potted history genre by genre.
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A tale told in the One Thousand and One Nights collection is one of the earliest crime stories. What is it called?
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The Three Apples
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The Porter and the Three Ladies
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Hoffman’s Mademoiselle de Scuderi was the first detective story written in which language?
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German
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French
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What is the name of Poe’s detective who solves the mystery of the Murders in the Rue Morgue?
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Dupin
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Le Bon
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What is the name of Collins’ Woman in White?
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Anne
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Jane
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume is set in which Australian city?
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Melbourne
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Sydney
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In Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet how are Holmes and Watson introduced?
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By a mutual friend
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By Mrs Hudson
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How many Father Brown stories did GK Chesterton write?
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53
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35
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The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkely offers the reader how many plausible solutions to the crime?
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6
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15
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What was the 5th of Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey books but the first to introduce the fictional mystery writer Harriet Vane?
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Strong Poison
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Five Red Herrings
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In Christie’s Death on the Nile how is Linnet nearly killed?
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By a falling rock
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By a snake
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In Tey’s The Franchise Affair what relationship are the two suspects?
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Mother – daughter
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Aunt – niece
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Which of Allingham’s Albert Campion novels is JK Rowling’s favourite crime novel?
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The Tiger in the Smoke
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The Beckoning Lady
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The true crime novel by Capote, In Cold Blood, was researched by Capote and which famous American writer?
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Harper Lee
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Joan Didion
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Which Rendell novel begins with the most famous spoiler in crime fiction: ‘Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.’
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A Judgement in Stone
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A Demon in My View
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Who wrote one of the bestselling novels of the 1980s, Gorky Park?
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Martin Cruz Smith
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Scott Turow
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Finish the title of this Rankin novel from his Inspector Rebus series: The — Garden
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Hanging
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Poisoned
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What was the first book in Larsson’s Millennium series?
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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The Girl who Played with Fire
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In Atkinson’s When Will There Be Good News which character escapes the brutal murder of her family?
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Joanna
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Louise
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Live By Night by Lehane is set in which decade of the 20th century?
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1920s
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1950s
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Finish the title of this crime novel by Kwei Quartey set in Ghana: The Missing —
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American
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German
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