Music The most recognisable thing about Golden Age Detective fiction — more than the murder weapons, the puzzles and all the other trappings of the classic whodunnit — is the time in which it is set. That two-decade period between the First and Second World Wars has become synonymous with the idea
Caroline: Authors' names and personalities loom large when we think about detective stories. It's enough to say "I'm reading an Agatha Christie". You don't need to give the title or summarise the plot for someone to know what you kind of
Caroline: By any definition, Ngaio Marsh lived an extraordinary life. She was the longest-lived of the four Queens of Crime from the golden age of detective fiction in the 1920s and 30s and was made a Dame by the Queen of England for her services to theatre in her native
