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Industrial revolution
More people learned how to read -
One of the first crime ficiton
William godwin writes one of the first pieces that resembles a crime fiction -
Poe writes first official crime fiction
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Sherlock holmes is created
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The golden age begins
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Age of the hard boiled crime story
in the early 20th century, the american society changed rapidly -
age of the modern crime story
starts directly efter the 2nd world war