From 1874 - when Jakob Aleševec in Bleiweis' Novice published the first part of his mystery short sotry Poštne nakaznice, which in literary history considered the first Slovene mystery - to WWWII, the Slovene mystery grew to four authors and 16 texts. Jakob Aleševec and Fran Milčinski, who wrote shorter mystries, kept changing the genre rules of the mystery, i.e., Aleševec needs a concidence as higher justice for cathing the criminal, while in Mičinski's work the detective, reader, and criminal laugh at the incompetent detective. Both most popular patterns of the detective story (classical and hard-core) were introduces into Slovene literature between the two World Wars with the novels Pasti in zanke (1922; a hard-core detective story) by Ivo Šorli and Neznani storilec (1939; a classical detective story) by Ljuba Prenner.
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