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...
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Golden Age of Science Fiction, often identified in the United States as the years 1938–1946, was a period in which a number of foundational works of science...
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Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates...
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Japanese detective fiction (推理小説, suiri shōsetsu, literally deductive reasoning fiction), is a popular genre of Japanese literature. When Western detective fiction...
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particularly in detective novels and short stories. Much of early detective fiction was written during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" (1920s–1930s)...
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1930s–1960s Golden Age of Detective Fiction, an era of detective fiction between World Wars I and II, epitomised by Agatha Christie Golden age of the Italian horror...
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E. C. R. Lorac (category Members of the Detection Club)
Lorac, Carol Carnac and Mary Le Bourne during the golden age of detective fiction. The youngest daughter of Harry (1861–1900) and Beatrice Rivett (née Foot;...
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Cozy mystery (redirect from Cosy crime fiction)
writers produced work in an attempt to re-create the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The detectives in such stories are nearly always amateurs, and are...
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Ngaio Marsh (category New Zealand crime fiction writers)
of the Order of the British Empire in 1966. As a crime writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Marsh is known as one of the "Queens of Crime"...
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work closely resembles the Golden Age of Detective Fiction in its structure and tropes. Closed Casket even includes a plan of the house in which the murder...
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Robin Stevens (author) (category Alumni of the University of Warwick)
English author of children's fiction, best known for her Murder Most Unladylike series. She has spoken of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as an influence...
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Nigel Strangeways (category Fictional detectives)
private detective created by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. He was one of the prominent detectives of the Golden Age of Detective...
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Freeman Wills Crofts (category Irish crime fiction writers)
Christie, and authors of the so-called golden age of detective fiction are more famous, he was esteemed by those authors, and many of his books are still...
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particularly in detective novels and short stories set in the United Kingdom in the Golden Age. The heroes of these adventures are often members of the British...
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Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet (category English crime fiction writers)
Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire from 1954 to 1961. He was also one of the leading authors during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Aubrey-Fletcher...
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lot of subtle, tongue-in-cheek humour instead, The Poisoned Chocolates Case is one of the classic whodunnits of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. As...
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Margery Allingham (category English crime fiction writers)
1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy...
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the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Agatha Christie, a writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, is best remembered for her 80 detective novels...
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of Agatha Christie. A common subgenre of detective fiction is the Whodunit. Whodunits experienced an increase in popularity during the Golden Age of Detective...
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To Love and Be Wise (category British detective novels)
featuring Detective Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. At a theatrical party in London Grant briefly encounters a...
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Collins Crime Club (category Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom)
publishers. List of authors published as UK first editions by Collins Crime Club The Crime Club Detective fiction Golden Age of Detective Fiction Collins Crime...
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of that period, dating to the first half of the 20th century, a time known as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction (or more general, mystery fiction)...
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marking the beginning of the Golden Age was the 1938 debut of Superman in Action Comics #1, published by Detective Comics (predecessor of DC Comics). Superman's...
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Inspector French (category Fictional British police detectives)
British police detective created by Irish author Freeman Wills Crofts. French was a prominent detective from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, appearing...
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles (category Fiction about uxoricide)
would.": 22–23 The story features many of the elements that have become icons of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, largely due to Christie's influence...
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States General Anthropology Division, of the American Anthropological Association Golden Age of Detective Fiction GADS (disambiguation) Gadd, a surname...
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during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. His novels employ a complexity of style and are generally set in rural locations. He died aged 65 in Dorchester...
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Golden Age of Detective Fiction that really get me down." He uses The Red House Mystery to illustrate the problems he saw in many mystery stories of this...
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Agatha Christie (redirect from The Queen of Crime)
in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a moniker...
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Francis Duncan (writer) (category English crime fiction writers)
children's fiction (as Robert Preston). Underhill's detective works follow the conventions of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and mostly feature one of two...
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