![]() ![]() One of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple novels was actually titled The Body in the Library.Ĭhristie and Sayers were founder-members of the Detection Club, a dining society formed in London in 1930. Sayers earned fortunes by satisfying an apparently limitless public appetite for corpses in English country houses. That is the familiar template for crime fiction in the golden age, those years between the First and Second World Wars, when authors such as Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, and Dorothy L. Two hundred pages later, when the police have exhausted all lines of inquiry and made hee-hawing jackasses of themselves, an amateur detective summons the dramatis personae to the same library-they may well include an actress, a tennis pro, an embittered widow, a disinherited younger son, and of course a butler-to reveal which of them is the killer. ![]()
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