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Golden Age Whodunits

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Otto Penzler
    Format:
    Hardcover
    Pages:
    408
    Publisher:
    American Mystery Classics (July 2, 2024)
    Imprint:
    American Mystery Classics
    Language:
    English
    Audience:
    General/trade
    ISBN-13:
    9781613165416
    ISBN-10:
    1613165412
    Weight:
    19.84oz
    Dimensions:
    5.25" x 8" x 1.3"
    File:
    Eloquence-SimonSchuster_10032026_P10711953_onix30_Complete-20261003.xml
    Folder:
    Eloquence
    List Price:
    $25.95
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Series:
    American Mystery Classics
    Case Pack:
    24
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    $19.98
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-SS
    Discount Code:
    A
  • Overview

    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.