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...
Reception
Margery Allingham
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...
