Subgenres
- Whodunits are traditional mysteries in which the perpetrator is hidden until the end. Some aithors are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
- Howdunits focus on the how of the crime. Writers ranging from Joseph Wambaugh to Michael Connelly have written this
- Whydunits focus on the motivation of the perpetrator. Examples are Mario Puzo’s The Godfather and many of Elmore Leonard’s criminal novel depictions.
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