The Golden Age of Detective Fiction in England

Various writers of the Golden Age of detective fiction in England in the 1920s and 1930s took up Conan Doyle’s form as a model, developed it further, and popularized it. They worked together closely and defined their goals and the fiction they wrote mainly in regular meetings of the so-called Detection Club. The club was formed—initiated by Anthony Berkeley (1893–1971)—in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers, including, amongst others, Agatha Christie (1890–1976), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), Margery Allingham (1904–1966), Ronald Knox (1888–1957), Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957), and R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943).