Russian writer Alexander Andreyevich Shklyarevsky (1837-1883) belonged, according to V. V. Krestovsky, "to that working class of magazine literature that can boldly, in all fairness, be dubbed the literary convicts." Shklyarevsky was forced to struggle with poverty all his life. He taught for more than ten years, while simultaneously publishing articles in various newspapers and magazines. A man generously gifted with talent, he achieved neither material benefits nor literary recognition, although he has the right to be called the "father of the Russian detective." Shklyarevsky gained fame as the "Russian Gaboriau" in the late 1860s, as the author of numerous stories and novels of a criminal nature. In Shklyarevsky's "criminal" works, the name of the criminal often becomes known to the reader already in the middle of the book. The main attention in them is paid not to the detective and the investigation process, but to the experiences of the criminal and the reasons that prompted him to commit a crime. In this regard, the novel "What prompted the murder?" published in this volume is indicative.
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