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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.
Fictional detectives are characters in detective fiction. 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).
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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 .
Ngaio Marsh is one of the “Queens of Crime” of the “Golden Age of Detective Fiction,” and Ross Macdonald is in the American "hardboiled" tradition.
The interwar period (the 1920s and 1930s) is generally referred to as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. [41] During this period, a number of very popular writers emerged, including mostly British but also a notable subset of American and New Zealand writers. Female writers constituted a major portion of notable Golden Age writers.
The Viaduct Murder is a 1925 mystery detective novel by the British author Ronald Knox. [1] [2] [3] A stand-alone novel, it was a precursor to his series of five books featured the insurance investigator Miles Bredon, all published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. It was published in London by Methuen and in New York by Simon and ...
The 1920s and '30s are commonly known as the "Golden Age" of detective fiction. Most of its authors were British: Agatha Christie (1890–1976), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), and many more. Some of them were American, but with a British touch.