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...
Those of us who complained in the past that detective stories are not taken seriously enough in this country or the US (two countries that have been in the forefront of producing the actual literature) ought to be pleased with the amount of academic interest displayed in the genre in the last couple of decades. All Tory Historian can say is that one must beware of what one wishes for as it might just come true.
Of course, TH and other...
The
First but Forgotten Lord Hailsham
Chris
Cooper
Dr Chris Cooper was recently awarded a PhD at the University of Liverpool. He has taught at a variety of higher education institutions
and has published a number of articles on different aspects of
modern British political history.
The Conservative History Journal blog is very
pleased to be publishing this article about an unjustly neglected Conservative
politician...