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Talking About Detective FictionThe Golden Age When one looks at the Golden Age in retrospect the developing rebellion against its ideas and standards is clearly visible, but this is the wisdom of hindsight, for during the thirties the classical detective story burgeoned with new and considerable talents almost every year. Julian Symons, Bloody Murder A VICTORIAN CRITIC of the Sherlock Holmes stories, writing in BlackwoodБЂ™s Magazine in the late 1800s, while not altogether dismissive of the saga, concluded with the words: БЂњConsidering the difficulty of hitting on any fancies that are decently fresh, surely this sensational business must shortly come to a close.БЂ«No prophecy could have been more misjudged. Not only did the sensational business continue, but the new century saw an outburst of creative energy directed towards detective fiction, the emergence of new talented writers and a public which greeted their efforts with an avid enthusiasm which contemporary cartoons suggest amounted to a craze. Although short stories continued to be written, gradually they gave way to the detective novel ...» |
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