Through the Magnifying Glass: Exploring British Society in the Golden Age Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh

This thesis uses the popular genre of detective fiction to explore the context of the heyday of the crime genre: the Golden Age. This sub-genre, best known for producing Agatha Christie, spanned the complicated history of Britain involving the Great Depression, two World Wars and huge changes to cla...

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Main Author: Devereux, Danielle Marie
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Humanities 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8404