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- Title
Penelope Fitzgerald's Beginnings: The Golden Child and Fitzgerald's Anxious Relation to Detective Fiction.
- Authors
Knight, Christopher J.
- Abstract
The article discusses English novelist Penelope (Knox) Fitzgerald's definition of a detective story as she reviews the detective novel "Double Cross-Purposes" by her uncle Fr. Ronald Knox. Topics discussed include her requirements for a detective novel such as fair play in presenting available clues which can be found, as she suggests in the gamut of Golden Age detective authors including Agatha Cristie, Dorothy Sayers and Anthony Berkeley.
- Subjects
FITZGERALD, Penelope, 1916-2000; AUTHORS; ENGLISH detective &; mystery stories; SAYERS, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957; BERKELEY, Anthony
- Publication
Cambridge Quarterly, 2012, Vol 41, Issue 3, p345
- ISSN
0008-199X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/camqtly/bfr029