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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. The Golden Age proper is in practice usually taken to refer to a type of fiction which was predominant in the 1920s and 1930s but had been written since at least 1911 and is still being written.
Pages in category "Writers of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction" The following 139 pages are in this category, out of 139 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
These individuals have long been a staple of detective mystery crime fiction, particularly in detective novels and short stories. Much of early detective fiction was written during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" (1920s–1930s). These detectives include amateurs, private investigators and professional policemen. They are often ...
The interwar period (the 1920s and 1930s) is generally referred to as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. [41] During this period, a number of very popular writers emerged, including mostly British but also a notable subset of American and New Zealand writers. Female writers constituted a major portion of notable Golden Age writers.
Internationally she is best known for her 32 detective novels published between 1934 and 1982. Along with Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie, she has been classed as one of the four original "Queens of Crime" —female writers who dominated the genre of crime fiction in the Golden Age of the 1920s and 1930s. [2]
Ngaio Marsh, a major figure in detective writing, only joined later in life. [6] Subsequent members of the Club included Andrew Garve, H. R. F. Keating and John Bingham. Martin Edwards charted the early history of the Club in his 2015 book The Golden Age of Murder.
I’ve also been a keen reader of other Golden Age writers, including American authors such as Ellery Queen and S.S. Van Dine, who created some of the most brilliant mysteries of the genre.
Most Secret (novel) – 1964 (This was a revision of a novel by Carr that was published in 1934 as Devil Kinsmere under the pseudonym "Roger Fairbairn") Papa La-Bas – 1968; The Ghost's High Noon – 1970; Deadly Hall – 1971; The Hungry Goblin: A Victorian Detective Novel – 1972 (Wilkie Collins is the detective)