{"title":"Golden Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eGolden Age and Golden Age-style mysteries\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fear-stalks-the-village","title":"Fear Stalks the village","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-12 flex flex-col gap-9 xl:mb-28 xl:gap-14\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prose\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"rich-text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmbling along the lanes of a sleepy village in the Downs, passing cosy Tudor cottages rustling with wisteria, a novelist imagines the sordid truth hidden behind the quaint, rustic facade. Her musings are confirmed when a spate of anonymous poison pen letters shocks the community, turning neighbour against neighbour and embroiling everyone from the rector and the ‘queen of the village’ Decima Asprey to the high-born Scudamores. With venom in the air, the perpetrator a mystery and dark secrets threatening to come to light, a shadow of shame and scandal stretches over the parish, with death and disaster following in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevelling in the wickedness that lies beneath the idyllic veneer of village life, White’s 1932 mystery is an inventive interwar classic and remains one of the foundation stones of the village mystery sub-genre of crime fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Fear Stalks the Village has a sense of reality about it which few thrillers possess, and the characterisation is excellent. 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