Almost terrifyingly precocious, Flavia loves chemistry, her father, and her buddy Digger, her father’s batman. Flavia de Luce is a mere twelve years old when she first appears in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. This unpredictability has helped keep the series fresh and funny.Īlan Bradley created one of the most memorable amateur sleuths of the twenty-first century.
Andrews introduces various members of the extended family through the series, each of whom has a way of complicating Meg’s life in unexpected (and occasionally unwelcome) ways. Meg, a blacksmith, is unmarried when the reader meets her in Murder with Peacocks, but over the course of the series, she gets married and has children.
That can be a tough assignment for the amateur sleuth writer of today, but it’s a challenge that some meet head on by making their characters persons of depth whom it’s impossible to know well in only one book.ĭonna Andrews will publish her thirtieth book in the Meg Langslow series this fall. While contemporary readers still enjoy these older mysteries, today they like their amateur sleuths and even the professionals not to remain static from book one through book forty in a series.
He marries and has a son, and by the end of the series he is obviously elderly. His adventures vary over the years between thrillers and detective stories. He started in 1929 as a bit of a young rogue in The Crime at Black Dudley (apa The Black Dudley Murder), but in the second book, Mystery Mile (1930), he is obviously a good guy. Campion aged noticeably throughout the series. Margery Allingham, the creator of Albert Campion and a younger contemporary of Agatha Christie, took a different approach, however.
Most detectives of this Golden Age (roughly 1920 to 1945) never really aged. All three of these characters and their creators remain hugely popular, despite the fact that the characters change very little throughout the course of their respective serial adventures. Miss Marple, on the other hand, was an amateur who usually solved cases beyond the capabilities of the police. Anyone remember Sherlock Holmes? Holmes was a professional, however, as was Hercule Poirot. Series have been popular since the beginning of the mystery genre.
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