01945cam a2200313 i 4500 506916905 TxAuBib 20211001120000.0 160510s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2016020376 9780008105983 PAP 15.99 0008105987 PAP 15.99 TxAuBib rda Edwards, Martin, 1955- Golden age of murder. The golden age of murder [BOOK] : the mystery of the writers who invented the modern detective story / Martin Edwards. Paperback edition. London : Collins Crime Club, 2016. xxiv, 481 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 450-458) and index. This real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction. Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as cosily conventional. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Golden Age of Murder tells for the first time the extraordinary story of British detective fiction between the two World Wars. A gripping real-life detective story, it investigates how Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie and their colleagues in the mysterious Detection Club transformed crime fiction. Their work cast new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors’ darkest secrets, and their complex and sometimes bizarre private lives. Provided by publisher. 20211001. Detection Club. Novelists, English 20th century Biography. Murder in literature. Mystery fiction History and criticism.