22 July 2019
By the end of the 1950s, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Golden Age of classic British mystery fiction was completely done. The breezy puzzles of Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, and Ngaio Marsh had been overtaken by hardboiled detectives, psychological thrillers, mean streets, twisted characters, and plots that examined the underbelly of human behavior.
