If you’re a writer of detective
fiction or someone who loves a good detective mystery, then you’ll want to
learn all you can about the “Big Four” female detective writers from the 20s
and 30s. Their combined work has sold in the billions. Okay, let’s take the
leader out of the picture since her work has sold over 4 billion copies. That still leaves millions of books sold, which
means there are millions of fans, which means millions of buyers. That ain’t
chump change.
1)Number one on the list is Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976).
Creator of two of the best-loved detectives, Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. She
wrote the best-selling mystery of all time and one of the best-selling books of
all time, And Then There Were None,
selling over 100 million copies.
2)Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 – 1957). Creator of one of the
great detectives of the “Golden Age,” Lord Peter Wimsey—sophisticated, witty
and with a high social standing. Sayers was also a translator, translating
Dante’s Divine Comedy,…
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