Early critics of MA
's work saw her as a young revitaliser of the detective form, along with Nicholas Blake
and Michael Innes. Later she was linked with the slightly older Dorothy Sayers
and...
Literary responses
Agatha Christie
In 1945 Edmund Wilson in Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd dismissed Christie's style as unreadable because of its mawkishness and banality, her plotting as mere sleight-of-hand, and her characters as two-dimensional puppets manipulated...
