Word: lectual
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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From the days of Poe, when the detective story was literature, it has de generated. Today, it is usually, writer and reader alike, a mere intel lectual concoction, a puzzle, dependent for interest entirely on its solution, but cast in literary form, with perhaps few thrills of horror thrown in for good measure. The two following examples belong to the latter development but, in their group, they are considerably above the average...
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