KnowraGolden Age of Detective FictionLinked fromLinked fromThe 21 pages that link to Golden Age of Detective Fiction, each with the reason it gives.All 21Broader topic 3Related 4Narrower topic 9Compared with 5Agatha ChristieNarrower topic: Christie became one of its defining writers and shaped its conventions.WhodunitNarrower topic: Its writers codified many of the genre’s recognizable clue-and-solution conventions.Fair-play mysteryNarrower topic: Golden Age writers codified the expectation that clues should permit independent solution.Hercule PoirotNarrower topic: Poirot became one of the best-known detectives of this literary movement.Wilkie CollinsNarrower topic: Writers of this period inherited the evidence-driven mystery associated with Collins.Dorothy L. SayersNarrower topic: Sayers’s major Wimsey novels helped define this period’s British detective fiction.A Study in ScarletNarrower topic: Holmes’s celebrated methods helped shape later expectations of the detective hero.John Dickson CarrNarrower topic: Carr’s intricate clue-driven novels are among the best-known works associated with this era.P. D. JamesNarrower topic: James inherited its fair-play puzzle tradition while writing for a later readership.