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The Golden Age of Murder

Af: Martin Edwards Engelsk Paperback

The Golden Age of Murder

Af: Martin Edwards Engelsk Paperback
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Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, 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.Crime novelist and current Detection Club President Martin Edwards rewrites the history of crime fiction with unique authority, transforming our understanding of detective stories, and the brilliant but tormented men and women who wrote them.
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Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, 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.Crime novelist and current Detection Club President Martin Edwards rewrites the history of crime fiction with unique authority, transforming our understanding of detective stories, and the brilliant but tormented men and women who wrote them.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 528
ISBN-13: 9780008105983
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0008105987
Kategori: Berkshire
Udg. Dato: 9 feb 2017
Længde: 33mm
Bredde: 196mm
Højde: 131mm
Forlag: HarperCollins Publishers
Oplagsdato: 9 feb 2017
Forfatter(e): Martin Edwards
Forfatter(e) Martin Edwards


Kategori Berkshire


ISBN-13 9780008105983


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 528


Udgave


Længde 33mm


Bredde 196mm


Højde 131mm


Udg. Dato 9 feb 2017


Oplagsdato 9 feb 2017


Forlag HarperCollins Publishers

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