Depending on who you ask, the term "whodunit" was first coined sometime around 1930, but the literary form predates that name by several decades. Still, it was in the years between the two World Wars?the so-called "Golden Age" of mystery fiction?that the style flourished. Short mysteries were published far and wide by a variety of authors, not just those primarily associated with the genre. They appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker and other high-end periodicals that still exist today. These tales were, in short, among the most popular diversions in literature and were of the highest caliber.
In this volume, Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler collects some of the finest American whodunits of the era, including household names and welcome rediscoveries. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen and Mary Roberts Rinehart are all included, as are Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post and Helen Reilly. The result is a cross section of the whodunit tale in the years that made it a staple in mystery fiction.
| ISBN: | 9781613165423 |
| Publication date: | 30th July 2024 |
| Author: | Stephen Vincent Benét, Anthony Boucher, Fredric Brown, Mignon G Eberhart, F Scott Fitzgerald, C Daly King, Ring Lardner, Stuart Palmer |
| Publisher: | American Mystery Classics an imprint of Penzler Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Series: | American Mystery Classics |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism |
Depending on who you ask, the term "whodunit" was first coined sometime around 1930, but the literary form predates that name by several decades. Still, it was in the years between the two World Wars?the so-called "Golden Age" of mystery fiction?that the style flourished. Short mysteries were published far and wide by a variety of authors, not just those primarily associated with the genre. They appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker and other high-end periodicals that still exist today. These tales were, in short, among the most popular diversions in literature and were of the highest caliber.
In this volume, Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler collects some of the finest American whodunits of the era, including household names and welcome rediscoveries. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen and Mary Roberts Rinehart are all included, as are Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post and Helen Reilly. The result is a cross section of the whodunit tale in the years that made it a staple in mystery fiction.
Golden Age Whodunits features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism
Golden Age Whodunits is available in Paperback
Golden Age Whodunits was written by Stephen Vincent Benét, Anthony Boucher, Fredric Brown, Mignon G Eberhart, F Scott Fitzgerald, C Daly King, Ring Lardner, Stuart Palmer and published by American Mystery Classics an imprint of Penzler Publishers
Golden Age Whodunits has 384 pages
Yes it is part of American Mystery Classics series