Golden Age Reading

What are your favorite books and why? 

I continue my FiftyIn50 blogging challenge.   

Almost exclusively I read Crime Fiction, with a little bit of auto-biographical work thrown in for curiosity. 

Crime Fiction has been my go-to for as long as I can remember.  I started off on the main-stream authors, but now I gravitate towards unknown, new authors.  Social media has introduced me to some wonderful writers.  Several of those are now well-established, in the sense they are in a book count beyond single figures. 

I’m not keen on gore, blood, and guts.  It’s the characters and the plot, and the thrill of the mystery that draws me in. 

More recently I have gravitated to the golden-age of detective novels -- the period around the 1920/30s.  We will all be familiar with Agatha Christie, but Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh are also in the ‘Queen of Crime’ accolade. 

I think my attraction to golden-age is driven by my fascination of the ‘20s.  A simpler time, yet highly ordered.