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How we misunderstand detective fiction’s Golden Age

Agatha Christie

Books

How we misunderstand detective fiction’s Golden Age

There was no shortage of left-wing authors of Golden Age detective fiction

Martin Edwards

Kenneth Branagh: the luckiest man in Hollywood?

He has been given break after break and has done his best with them

Alexander Larman

Where will the vogue for censoring our best-loved authors lead?

It seems that the ‘revised’ titles are likely to become the norm

Alexander Larman

The charm of Toronto’s Park Hyatt Writer’s Room

It’s like dropping into the opening scene of an Agatha Christie story: anything could happen

Jane Stannus

Film

Is Glass Onion a victim of its own success?

The Knives Out sequel almost loses the plot

Julia Sirmons

Science & Tech
May 6, 2022
How did we fall for the junk science of forensics?
I believed in the polygraph test, in an unthinking way, right up until last week
Mary Wakefield
Film
March 9, 2022
Why does Hollywood ruin literature’s best characters?
What Kenneth Branagh has done to Poirot borders on literary mutiny
Teresa Mull
Books
February 10, 2022
The deep conservatism of Agatha Christie
Her stories always saw good triumph over evil, while resisting social anarchies
Casey Chalk
Books
June 18, 2020
A choice of classic crime fiction
Andrew Taylor revisits Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Josephine Tey and Patricia Highsmith among other favorite authors
Andrew Taylor
Books
March 18, 2020
The lockdown list: books to read during quarantine
Daily reading recommendations from The Spectator’s writers and editors
The Spectator

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