Lesson 2-Waiting for the Police II. Mystery fiction The genre has its beginning in the riddles told in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Similar stories were told in the Middle Ages but the genre didn't really begin to develop until the detective stories of Edgar Allan Poe. The first true mystery novel is considered to be The Woman in White(1860) by Wilkie Collins BTL E The end of Mystery Fiction BACILesson 2—Waiting for the Police W B T L E The genre has its beginning in the riddles told in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Similar stories were told in the Middle Ages but the genre didn’t really begin to develop until the detective stories of Edgar Allan Poe. The first true mystery novel is considered to be The Woman in White (1860) by Wilkie Collins. II. Mystery Fiction The end of Mystery Fiction