The right answer is C. A detective is sent to a strange city to investigate a crime that consumes him. The Gothic novel came to popularity at the end of the 18th century. It gave great importance to terror, characterized by obscurity and uncertainty, and horror, caused by evil and atrocity. Darkness was a necessary ingredient for the mysterious, gloomy atmosphere. The settings were commonly placed in isolated castles and mysterious cities. Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston but reared in Virginia, was a master of Gothic horror and the inventor of the detective story. The option that express much of these features is letter C.
