An investigation of the Crime Dossiers, a form of literature as mystery game— an entirely new manifestation of gamified literature—developed in the interwar period.“An intricate web of envy, desire and aspiration,” Herewith the Clues is a jaunt through the history of the Crime Dossiers, a form of literature as mystery game—developed in the interwar period—where players solved puzzles much in the way that a detective in the 1920s might have solved a crime using forensics. These mass-produced games came in the form of binders, books, suitcases, or boxes containing crime-scene evidence (and literary red herrings), each piece of evidence itself a kind of riddle. One could see these as not only an entirely new manifestation of gamified literature, but game playing itself evolving: storytelling as a riddle-solving game acted in the flesh, rather than existing solely in the minds of author and reader.
- ISBN10 3956794427
- ISBN13 9783956794421
- Publish Date 2 July 2019
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 May 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Sternberg Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 40
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9783956794421