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Golden Age Classics

The Golden Age of detective fiction is defined by the interwar period, with most books written in the 1920s and 1930s. Many famous writers penned their whodunits in this period: Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, Margery Allingham.