Caroline: As you might expect from a podcast titled "Shedunnit", I talk a fair bit here about women detectives. I noticed recently, though, that many of these golden age lady sleuths tend to be of more mature years, shall we say, especially the famous and recurring ones. Miss
Caroline: The high point of golden age detective fiction occurred between the First and Second World Wars. That's a generally accepted fact. Of course, when Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and co were writing and publishing in the 1930s, they didn't know they were part of
Caroline: Here are a few things that all crime fiction lovers know to be true. Detective stories work best when they are firmly focused on reality, giving the supernatural a wide berth. A classic whodunnit needs a clear, unambiguous ending: the good end happily and the bad, unhappily. And Agatha
