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Video interview: Martin Edwards, President of the Detection Club, talks The Golden Age of Murder

Which true crimes inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, GK Chesterton and others to create the Golden Age of detective fiction?

What was it about these flawed personalities which made them such incredible writers?

And in the 1930s, with the rise of fascist dictators including Hitler and Mussolini, how the did the looming global conflict influence their thoughts about justified murder?

The President of the Detection Club, Martin Edwards, tells all to Robert Murphy.

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