{"product_id":"the-detective-fiction-reviews-of-charles-williams-1930-1935-9780786414543","title":"The Detective Fiction Reviews of Charles Williams, 1930-1935","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jared Lobdell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mystery \u0026amp; Detective Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"'The new Sayers' is not merely admirable; it is adorable. There were, in Miss Sayers's more recent books, signs that a strange element was struggling to be free. In one this element seemed like philosophy; in one like fantasy. It has now become perfectly freed itself, and become perfectly united with her other capacities. \u003ci\u003eThe Nine Tailors\u003c\/i\u003e is consequently not a tale of murder, but an experience of life.\"--Charles Williams, review of \u003ci\u003eThe Nine Tailors\u003c\/i\u003e by Dorothy Sayers, January 17, 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e English editor, literary critic, poet, novelist, theologian, and Inkling, Charles Williams (1885-1945) wrote popular-press reviews of detective fiction in its golden age of popularity (early thirties) for such newspapers as \u003ci\u003eThe Westminster Chronicle \u0026amp; News-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Mail.\u003c\/i\u003e This book presents all of Williams' published reviews of detective fiction--covering works by Agatha Christie, Sax Rohmer, Ellery Queen, Dashiel Hammett and E. Phillips Oppenheim, to name a few. It begins with a discussion of Williams as a detective fiction reviewer, then presents the reviews year-by-year, from 1930 to 1935, and concludes with a discussion of the end of the golden age of detective fiction. An appendix lists the authors that Williams reviewed, which books were reviewed, the date that they were reviewed, and additional information on each author.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47590047219863,"sku":"9780786414543","price":2823.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786414543.webp?v=1774969681","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-detective-fiction-reviews-of-charles-williams-1930-1935-9780786414543","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}