Just read an interesting point in a history of Nazi film. Detective stories only exist in democracies. Not in Communist or Fascist societies
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Dead Mountaineer' Hotel by the Strugatsky brothers
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Soviet crime & detective novels are hard to find in English. There are some French translations & probably other languages.
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But it's fair to say the genre didn't enjoy much prestige (I suspect because it went against rules of Socialist Realism).
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IIRC Northrup Frye wrote something about detective novels being cultural expression of police state.
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It was in the context of film. I couldn't think of a counterexample.
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Interesting -- might be worth asking around. I wonder if Semenov or Likhanov ever got adapted
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