What Was So Golden about the Golden Age?
Detective
fiction long ago moved from the whodunit to the whydunit; today it often
employs a complicated, psychological approach. So what can be learned from this
anthology of mystery writers from its simpler Golden Age?
Do any of them still
stand up to modern scrutiny, apart from Agatha Christie, still the reigning
Shakespeare of the form? After reading through these 350 pages, I’m still
wondering.
