Genre purists may disagree with the trend, but walk into any mystery bookstore today and you will find side by side on the shelves: a hard-boiled detective story by Raymond Chandler, a traditional Miss Marple cozy by Agatha Christie, a paranoid Hitchcockian suspense thriller by Jeffery Deaver, and a realistic crime morality tale from Michael Connelly. Once strictly confined to novels whose plot primarily involved the solving of a puzzle or a crime, the mystery genre has been gradually stretching its boundaries.
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