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Agatha Christie and the truth about detective fiction’s Golden Age

9 June 2024

3:30 PM

9 June 2024

3:30 PM

A hundred years ago, the Golden Age of detective fiction was taking off. In the years that followed, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and their contemporaries wrote classics that still delight readers today. But the great crime books of the inter-war years – and the politics of the people who wrote them – have long been misunderstood.

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