Who Put the Cozy in Mysteries? By: Kimberly R. Thorn
Some people credit ‘Golden Age’ authors like Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers with writing some of the very first considered cozy mysteries. Others credit the genre as being more of a modern return to stories like these Golden Age writers wrote. Ones with the murder not being as deep, dark and bloodthirsty. Where the writers present the mystery as more of a puzzle for the reader to solve in real time with the sleuth.
What Ingredients Are Needed for a
Cozy?
~ Includes an amateur sleuth. It helps is they at least are considered a
suspect at least first, as the actual police or detective do not like our sleuth
meddling in their work.
