Crime

The most important era for the English detective fiction was during the Golden Age when the pure form of a detective story represented a puzzle or a game. For this type of mystery fiction was established the term whodunit in nineteen thirties. Many excellent authors representing whodunit writing style during the Golden Age interwar period continued in this style after the World War II. Margery Allingham and her amateur sleuth Albert Campion, E.C. Bentley, G.K. Chesterton and his Father Brown stories, Agatha Christie and her most popular Belgian detective Hercule Poirot or amateur spinster detective Miss Marple are an examples of the whodunit detective fiction. Other authors like Father Ronald Knox and Dorothy L. Sayers and her snobbish amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey also illustrate this genre.