Mist on the Saltings is a 1933 mystery thriller novel by the British writer Henry Wade.[1] It marked a change in Wade's work, part of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, with a shift toward more realistic character development and a favouring of accurate police procedural methods over the puzzle elements compared to his earlier novels.[2] Celebrated crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a review of the novel for the Sunday Times.
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| Author | Henry Wade |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Mystery Thriller |
| Publisher | Constable |
Publication date | 1933 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Unusually for detective fiction, the murder doesn't take place until the thirteenth chapter and much of the plot focuses on the conditions that led to the killing in a small village on the Norfolk coast.
References
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edit- Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
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