![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The American detective story stood still, exactly where it had been before the War.”Įarl Derr Biggers (1884–1933) was the first to buck that tide. As crime fiction historian Howard Haycraft, writing in 1942, put it: “ was doing work to compare with the exciting developments that were taking place in England. After Anna Katharine Green, and with the sole exception of Mary Roberts Rinehart, no Americans achieved any fame until S. All espoused the clue-based mystery, presenting puzzles for the readers to solve. Bailey, Margery Allingham, and Josephine Tey-all notably English. Bentley, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, H. While critics may argue over the exact parameters of the “Golden Age” of crime fiction, most place its beginning between 19 and sweep into its early pantheon writers such as Conan Doyle, E. ![]()
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