{"product_id":"9780008105983","title":"The Golden Age of Murder","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Edwards, Martin \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 09\/02\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 528 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008105983,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as cosily conventional. Nothing could be further from the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Golden Age of Murder tells for the first time the extraordinary story of British detective fiction between the two World Wars. A gripping real-life detective story, it investigates how Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie and their colleagues in the mysterious Detection Club transformed crime fiction. Their work cast new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors’ darkest secrets, and their complex and sometimes bizarre private lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Crime novelist and current Detection Club President Martin Edwards rewrites the history of crime fiction with unique authority, transforming our understanding of detective stories, and the brilliant but tormented men and women who wrote them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697865883692,"sku":"9780008105983","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008105983.jpg?v=1722604563","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008105983","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}