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| | Carolyn Hart |
 | | Christie was the leading light of the Golden Age, that glorious period between the two world wars that saw the publication of Dorothy L. Sayers, Philip MacDonald, H. Bailey, Earl Derr Biggers, Ellery Queen, John Dickson Carr, Nicholas Blake, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, and Phoebe Atwood Taylor. |
 | | By the end of the 80s, publishers were scrambling for mysteries set in America with female protagonists. |
 | | Among the early authors who caught that first wave of change were Nancy Pickard, Margaret Maron, Joan Hess, Barbara D’Amato and I. The traditional mystery continues to thrive. |
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