4th Wednesday Lunchtime Lecture 27th February

Come and join us as we celebrate the opening of the PPL’s new and unique Classic Crime Collection with an introductory talk on Wednesday 27 February at 12.30pm at the Plymouth Proprietary Library. FREE Non-members welcome tea & coffee available.

The Rules of Murder: the Golden Age of Detective Stories

Emerging in the gloomy, sooty streets of the mid-Victorian period, the British detective story quickly developed a life of its own, adapting to changing times, changing tastes, until the post-First World War eruption of new writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, rewrote the ‘rules’ of detective fiction, creating what is now known as the Golden Age of detective stories.