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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.
Agatha Christie is not only the most famous Golden Age writer, but also considered one of the most famous authors of all genres of all time. At the time of her death in 1976, “she was the best-selling novelist in history.” [39] Many of the most popular books of the Golden Age were written by Agatha Christie.
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 .
The best mystery novels don’t simply dazzle readers with byzantine plots or throw them off track with unreliable narrators or Macguffins. Here, works from John Le Carré, Michael Connelly, and more.
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 ...
Writers of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction (139 P) Pages in category "The Golden Age of Detective Fiction" This category contains only the following page.
Murder in the Maze is a 1927 detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington. [1] It was the first of seventeen novels featuring his best-known character the Golden Age Detective Sir Clinton Driffield, Chief Constable of an English county.
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]
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