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"A statistical and critical literary analysis of Golden Age Detective Fiction. Collects together: - a statistical analysis of the solutions to Agatha Christie's short stories, identifying favoured solutions (without giving away any plots!), comparing and contrasting the Poirot and Miss Marple stories. - analysis of the ""fogginess"" of the various members of the Detection Club writing the collaborative novels published in the Golden Age. - analysis of trends in locked room mysteries, identifying the different types of solution, when they were popular and gender differences in the genre. - analysing Golden Age Detective Fiction as popular culture revealing facets of life and society between the two world wars"

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Mark Green is a freelance writer and musician. He is the author of the Bodies From The Library blog and another literary blog, The Trollope Jupiter. He has written two books of literary criticism: The Trollope Jupiter Essays and Illustrating Trollope. He also edits Trollopiana, the magazine of The Trollope Society. Mark has lived in the UK and Holland and has also worked for three years in Paris and Luxembourg. He is the author of the Impressions travel book series, Riding For Life: The Freewheeler's Story about the work of the blood bike service and a cookery book: Cooking with Quorn.

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