A friendly warning: there are major spoilers for The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie in this episode. Music. Caroline: I think we're all quite comfortable with the idea of real life events inspiring fiction — it's not for nothing that some of the most critically acclaimed films
19 Feb 2020Caroline: There's a tendency sometimes to think of detective fiction from the early twentieth century as "cosy". In fact, in some countries the phrase "cozy mystery" even serves as a semi-official subgenre of crime writing — especially in America where it is defined against the
06 Feb 2020Caroline: In 1945, the American critic Edmund Wilson published a series of three essays deploring detective fiction as written by Agatha Christie, Rex Stout and Dorothy L. Sayers as of little value. In the second essay, which was titled “Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" as a direct dig
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