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Agatha Christie is one of the best-known British writers of detective fiction. She contributed to the establishment of the ‘Golden Age’ genre and created two of the most famous literary detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, as well as the investigative couple Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Ariadne Oliver, the police detective Superintendent Battle and many other detectives, amateur and professional, that feature in her stand-alone novels. Often listed with the other Golden Age ‘Queens of Crime’, Allingham, Sayers and Marsh, Christie arguably is Empress in terms of sheer volume and the overall phenomena generated by her work, which is comparable to that of Conan Doyle and his Sherlock Holmes stories.
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Cingal, D. (2020). Agatha Christie (1890–1976), 1920: US Publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles (UK 1921). In: Miskimmin, E. (eds) 100 British Crime Writers. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31902-9_23
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