Detective fiction always contain similar elements, since the Edgar Poe wrote "Murders in the Rue morgue" in 1841, and although "the adventure of the speckled band- by Conan Doyle and "The Affair at the Victory Ball- by Agatha Christie, were written many years apart, they share the same elements of those in "Murders in the Rue morgue." ... The costumes were based on a set of china figures forming part of Eustace Beltane's collection. ... Mr Davidson then returned to the ball, not as his original character Pierrot but Harlequin another character. ... As the ball was masked, and there were l...

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Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. ... By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentieth century than in any previous period. ... But all through what might be term...

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