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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.
Chester K. Steele was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for a series of mystery books. These were aimed at an older audience than most of the other syndicate books. The first title, The Mansion of Mystery , was written by Edward Stratemeyer , and the rest were ghostwritten.
Oakley Maxwell Hall (July 1, 1920 – May 12, 2008 [1] [2]) was an American novelist. He was born in San Diego, California, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the Marines during World War II. [3] Some of his mysteries were published under the pen names "O.M. Hall" and "Jason Manor."
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1920s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1920 through 1929. The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the ...
The unsolved murder of the beautiful Dot King captivated New York. In “Broadway Butterfly,” a jazzy true crime historical thriller, author Sara DiVello unearths piles of evidence and presents ...
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 [1] and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921.
1920 The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century: Leoš Janáček: An opera based on satirical novels by Svatopluk Čech from 1888, in one of which a heavy-drinking bourgeois 19th-century Prague landlord finds himself transported to 1420 in the middle of the Hussite Wars. 1928 / 1929 Armageddon 2419 A.D. Philip Francis Nowlan