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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 ...
- Dame Ngaio Marsh
Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh DBE (/ ˈ n aɪ oʊ /; 23 April 1895 –...
- Detective fiction
The period between World War I and World War II (the 1920s...
- History of crime fiction
The 1920s and '30s are commonly known as the "Golden Age" of...
- Dame Ngaio Marsh
Nov 7, 2023 · The Golden Age of Detective Fiction: The era of classic mysteries. By The Librarian’s Apprentice November 7, 2023 Updated on March 27, 2024. Facebook Tweet Email. It is sometimes said that when Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Murders in the Rue Morgue, a short story published in 1841, the word “detective” didn’t exist–and he couldn’t use ...
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The rise of detective fiction is a fascinating topic (previously, I’ve chosen 10 of the greatest examples of the genre ), and it’s no surprise that a book telling the story of classic crime fiction in 100 books should yield many surprising and interesting facts.
2.3 Gender and detective fiction. The inter-war years saw the expansion of a female readership across social classes, partly as rise in literacy fostered by the education reforms of the late nineteenth century, but it also saw, for the first time, reading habits reflect the opening of new professional horizons, traditionally thought of as male, on account of the mass mobilisation of the war ...
In this free course you will focus on one of Christie’s most important works: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926). This novel arguably marks the crossing of a threshold for Christie and for the genre of detective fiction.
