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Many of the best-known writers of whodunits in this period were British — notably Agatha Christie, Nicholas Blake, G. K. Chesterton, Christianna Brand, Edmund Crispin, Michael Innes, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell and Josephine Tey. Others – S. S. Van Dine, John Dickson Carr and Ellery Queen — were American, but imitated the "British ...
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.
Agatha Christie is the undisputed queen of mystery, and this Midwinter Murder collection brings together her best winter-themed whodunits. The subtitle calls them "Fireside Tales" and we couldn't ...
Whodunits, including the Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot series 86 British Barbara Cartland: 500 million [4] 1 billion [5] English Romance: 723 British Danielle Steel: 500 million [6] 800 million [7] English General fiction, romance 179 American: Harold Robbins: 750 million [8] 750 million [9] English Adventure: 23 American Georges Simenon: 500 ...
One of the most famous whodunits of all time is the board game Clue, and in 1985, the popular game got its own movie adaptation. In the film, a group of strangers going under aliases like Mrs ...
Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries collection (1918). The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction.
Peter Jewell Heck (born September 4, 1941, in Chestertown, Maryland) is an American science fiction and mystery author.His books include the "Mark Twain Mysteries"—historical whodunits featuring the famous author as a detective—and four books in the "Phule's Company" series, in collaboration with Robert Asprin, best described as "F-Troop in space".
Whodunits experienced an increase in popularity during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction of the 1920s-1940s, when it was the primary style of detective fiction. This subgenre is classified as a detective story where the reader is given clues throughout as to who the culprit is, giving the reader the opportunity to solve the crime before it is ...