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Talking About Detective FictionChristieБЂ™s last detective story, Postern of Fate, was published in 1973, AllinghamБЂ™s Cargo of Eagles in 1966 and MarshБЂ™s Light Thickens in 1982. Dorothy L. SayersБЂ™s last full-length detective story, BusmanБЂ™s Honeymoon, was first published in 1937 and reissued by Gollancz in 1972. But by the time it first appeared, Sayers was already losing interest in her aristocratic detective and turning her attention to her theological plays, and finally to her half-completed translation of DanteБЂ™s Divine Comedy, which was to be her creative passion for the rest of her life. But no novelist can distance herself from the social and political changes of contemporary life, and those detective writers who lasted into the new age, symbolised by that mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, necessarily had to adapt their fictional worlds to less comfortable times. Agatha Christie did so with some success, but even so, when a character in her books refers to returning from the war, or his experience during the war, I have to look back to the date of publication to know whether he is referring to the Great War of 1914-18 or the 1939-45 conflict ...» |
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