Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Detective fiction and its origins
  • 2 The post-war detective fiction boom: historical and social context
    • 2.1 Rethinking detective fiction
    • 2.2 The author’s life
    • 2.3 Gender and detective fiction
    • 2.4 Christie’s political context
  • 3 Structures of detective fiction
    • 3.1 Mahjong: the function of the clue–puzzle narrative
  • 4 The Purloined Killer: the role of the reader
  • 5 Does Christie break ‘the rules’?
    • 5.1 The rules of detective fiction
  • 6 Adaptation and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgements

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