Authors
This author created the most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
This character said, "I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good as yours."
Who is Dr. Watson?
Who is Lord Peter Wimsey?
Named for a poem by Coventry Patmore, this term became shorthand for the Victorian era's ideal woman, who served her home and family to the point of self-sacrifice and had no personal ambitions beyond this.
What is the Angel in the House?
This was a term for a woman, usually educated and middle class, who challenged gender norms and ideals at the end of the 19th and turn of the 20th century.
What is the New Woman?
This author created the star of the alphabet murders, Kinsey Milhone.
Who is Sue Grafton?
This character said, "Cooks nearly always put hundreds and thousands on trifle, dear. Those little pink and white sugar things. Of course, when I heard that they had trifle for supper and that the husband had been writing to someone about hundreds and thousands, I naturally connected the two things together. That is where the arsenic was--in teh hundreds and thousands."
Who is Miss Marple?
In 1929, 26 writers of detective fiction formed this group.
What is the Detection Club?
In the 19th century United States, matrix of feminine ideals was called this.
What is the cult of domesticity, or the cult of true womanhood?
Because it was more reprehensible for a person charged with keeping the social order to break it, Golden Age detective stories never pinned the crime on this person.
This author created the gentleman sleuth, C. Auguste Dupin.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.
Who is Raymond Chandler?
The group named in the 200 point category used this ten-rule guide by Roland Knox to write their stories.
What is the Detective Story Decalogue? (Will also accept Decalogue)
The Married Women's Property Act of 1870 granted married women the right to maintain possession of this.
What is their inheritance? (Will also accept earned income, money, or property.)
Stemming from an Early Modern and Renaissance debate then termed as "querelles des femmes," this was a series of complex debates around the roles, norms, and rights of women in 19th century England.
What is The Woman Question?
This author created Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
Who is Agatha Christie?
Who is Kinsey Milhone?
Many of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories were first published in this periodical.
What is The Strand Magazine?
The Married Women's Property Act of 1882 effectively ended this historical legal practice in England, whereby a woman ceased to exist as her own individual legal entity upon marriage.
What is coverture?
The characters Nick and Nora Charles represent an escapist fantasy of leisure and luxury during this era.
What is the Great Depression?
This author created Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles.
Who is Dashiell Hammet?
To good old Buck, who knew his colored lights, in memor of them there days.
Who is Eli Haven?
Because there was not yet a term for detective fiction or its central puzzle game, Edgar Allen Poe called his seminal short story a tale of this.
What is ratiocination?
This group, formed toward the end of the 19th century, advocated... "against the introduction of any fashion in dress that either deforms the figure, impedes the movements of the body, or in any way tends to injure the health."
What is the Rational Dress Society?
This 1891 case from the High Court in England established that being married to a woman did not grant her husband the right to imprison her.
What is R. V. Jackson?