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Cover of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the first book featuring Hercule Poirot, by Agatha Christie. The Golden Age of Detective Fiction was an era of classic murder mystery novels of similar patterns and styles, predominantly in the 1920s and 1930s. While the Golden Age proper is usually taken to refer to works from that period, this type of ...
Kirkus Reviews called the novel a "winner" for Grafton, praising its plot, placing, characters, and ambience along with the development of Kinsey Millhone's character. [ 4 ] Publishers Weekly gave a similar review, calling the plot "complex" and noting the main character's continued development.
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression.
Patricia McGerr (December 26, 1917 – May 11, 1985) was an American crime writer, primarily known for her puzzle mystery novels. She won an Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine/MWA prize for her 1968 story Match Point in Berlin and was awarded the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1952 for her 1951 novel Follow, As the Night (adapted as the 1954 film Bonnes à tuer, aka One Step to Eternity).
The series is written at a much more break-neck pace than other series books of the time; their style has been called "formula-writing at its most flaccid." [13] Others have compared the series to comic books, arguing that the stories are "lurid, but too cartoonish to be frightening." [14] Others have pointed to the character of Kay Tracey herself.
He began his mystery-writing career there, returning to the United States as an internationally known author in 1948. In 1950, his biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle earned Carr the first of his two Special Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America ; the second was awarded in 1970, in recognition of his 40-year career as a mystery writer.
His first crime novel, Seven Times Seven, was published in January 1932 by Melrose. It was a story about a gang of criminals. In 1935 he became a full-time writer. In 1937 alone, twenty-nine of his books were published. A phenomenally fast writer, he once suggested that he could be shut up in a glass-box and write there a whole book. [2]
Crime Fiction came to be recognised as a distinct literary genre, with specialist writers and a devoted readership, in the 19th century.Earlier novels and stories were typically devoid of systematic attempts at detection: There was a detective, whether amateur or professional, trying to figure out how and by whom a particular crime was committed; there were no police trying to solve a case ...