# 2 The post-war detective fiction boom: historical and social context

In this section you’ll start to gain some insights into the contexts of detective fiction in the post-First World War era. You’ll learn about Agatha Christie’s life and you’ll think about the significance of detective fiction as a genre written and read, increasingly, by women. You’ll finish this section by thinking about the inter-war political contexts of Christie’s writing.

Figure 1 Agatha Christie, 1926.

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