

In addition to series of novels and short stories, many magazines appeared dedicated exclusively to crime fiction and the successful family magazines of the era often featured detective stories. Before long however, it centred exclusively around publishers, translators and writers based in Athens. The first series of crime fiction translated into Greek were published from the 1910s to the 1930s, initially outside of Greece, in the Ottoman capital of Istanbul, where many Greek-speaking people lived, and some years later in Athens (Kassis, 165). Since its beginning, crime fiction in Greece has usually been distributed by publishers in multi-volume series. By Nikos Filippaios (PhD candidate, University of Ioannina, Greece)
