1st Edition
Re-Reading Golden Age Crime Writing Time, Space, and Place
Introduction Sarah Martin and Stefano Serafini; Chapter 1. 'It doesn't keep particularly good time': Adolescence, Time and Timelessness in the Early Nancy Drew Books; Chapter 2. Time Out in and from Murder Is Easy; 'I had no idea that I was contributing to the rewriting of history': Chapter 3. Temporality, Hauntological Spectres, and the Time-Travelling Detective in Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time; Chapter 4. 'Everything is Known on Board a Ship': The Heterotopic Closed Community in Rufus King's Murder by Latitude; Chapter 5. Wild Spaces: Domestic Bewilderment in the Novels of Christianna Brand; Chapter 6. Subverting the Surplus Woman: The Psychogeographic Spinster Detective in Unnatural Death; Chapter 7. 'Tir nan Og Is Just One Jump West': Therapeutic Landscapes in Josephine Tey's The Singing Sands; Chapter 8. 'When things become a little abnormal': Place and Character Psychology in Gladys Mitchell's The Rising of the Moon; Chapter 9. 'Here be dragons to be slain': Dorothy L. Sayers, Place and Disruptive Detection
Biography
Sarah Martin is a Visiting Lecturer in Crime Fiction at the University of Chester where she recently gained her PhD. She is Co-Director of Golden Age Mysteries ltd., who run the Agatha Christie and Golden Age of Crime conferences, and has published widely on Golden Age Detective Fiction.
Stefano Serafini an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University and the University of Padua. He is the author of Gothic Italy: Crime, Science and Literature after Unification (University of Toronto Press, 2024) and Italian Crime Fiction Revisited: Authority, Detection, and the Supernatural, 1861–1941 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).
