British murder mystery
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- "Hardboiled crime fiction - sometimes also referred to as noir fiction - was a U.S. reaction to the cosy conventionality of British murder mysteries with protagonists such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. --Sholem Stein
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.
The "whodunit" flourished during the so-called "Golden Age" of detective fiction, during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, when it was the predominant mode of crime writing. Many of the best writers of whodunits in this period were British — notably Agatha Christie, Nicholas Blake, Christianna Brand and Edmund Crispin, Michael Innes, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey.
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