This quotation, the title of the last
chapter in Martin Edwards’s seminal The
Golden Age of Murder, is, as so many things in the study of the genre, from
Agatha Christie. The last lines of Mr Edwards’s book are:
The last word belongs to Christie. In 1940, at the height of the Blitz, when she could not know if she or her family and friends would survive for long, she inscribed a copy of Sad Cypress: “Wars may come and wars may...