The locked room mystery, also known as the impossible crime or closed-circle mystery, is not really a genre, but a popular type of mystery.
Sleeping Murder was the last Miss Marple mystery
Mystery readers have long named Dorothy Leigh Sayers as one of the queens of the Golden Age of British detective writing.
In 1927, Grand Dame Agatha Christie introduced to the world one of the most popular mystery characters, Miss Jane Marple.
One of the key features of the police procedural genre is the attempt to accurately show and tell the profession of law enforcement
The hardboiled American detective was much more cynical than his English counterpart. It wasn’t a game or puzzle to him, but a more personal battle against evil, often of life or death.
Calling Josephine Bell a writer from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction does her a disservice.