Caroline: Welcome to Shedunnit. I'm Caroline Crampton. An endlessly fascinating aspect of the golden age of detective fiction is its identification with a certain kind of Britishness. Many of the authors who are widely read from the genre's heyday in the 1920s and 1930s either were
09 Feb 2022Caroline: The golden age of detective fiction was obsessed with identity. As soon as you start looking, you see impersonators everywhere in the crime fiction of the 1920s and 1930s — sometimes there’s more than one in a single novel. Without the readily available means of independently verifying that someone
26 Jan 2022Caroline: Welcome to Shedunnit. I'm Caroline Crampton. One of the things I love about reading detective fiction from the 1920s and 1930s - what we call "the golden age" - is what I learn about that time period just from its whodunnits. There's so
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