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Ahmet Mithat uses his experiences and observations in social life as a source of inspiration for his novels and stories. He carries the sleuthing organizations, which were created with the main aim of keeping the state alive, to detect those who are operating against the state and to impose the necessary punishments on them, into the fictional world. In fact, he was arrested on April 6 and exiled to Rhodes on April 10, due to a critical article published in the İbret newspaper. One of the reasons for this was the close relationship he established with the Young Ottomans, and the other was the sleuths who interpreted this relationship in different ways and prepared reports. Ahmet Mithat, who did not give up journalism, which he saw as his main profession, even in the oppressive, political and political atmosphere created by the oppression period, calls censorship "the marten”. In fact, in order to take precautions against the activities of the spies, he constantly told his employees to be careful and that there should not be any holes in the henhouse, pointing to the troubles and difficulties of the current period. It is, of course, unthinkable for an artist who tries to turn everything he sees, hears and reads into a novel subject, not to mention them in his novels. For this purpose, it is the basis of the study to look at the sleuthing phenomenon in Ahmet Mithat's novels in the context of Taine's theory of "nation”, "environment” or "situation” and "time”.