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Episode: The golden age of detective stories and the locked room puzzle
Description: Send us Fan MailThe golden age of detective stories and the locked room puzzle.Comments about the golden age of detective stories, tell of the domination of Agatha Christie, and before her, Arthur Conan Doyle and even earlier, Edgar Allen Poe. More specifically, the golden age is placed approximately between the two Great world wars, 1920 to 1938.One particular sub-variant is the locked room mystery. In this, the crime, usually murder, is committed in a way that appears impossible to the reader. Arguably Agatha Christie could be put forward inevitably for her mastery o...