Witchcraft and paganism exert an insistent pressure from the
margins of midcentury British detective fiction. This Element
investigates the appearance of witchcraft and paganism in the
novels of four of the most popular female detective authors of the
era: Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh and Gladys
Mitchell. The author approaches the theme of witchcraft and
paganism not simply as a matter of content but as an influence
which shapes the narrative and its possibilities. The 'witchy'
detective novel, as the author calls it, brings together the
conventions of Golden Age fiction with the images and enchantments
of witchcraft and paganism to produce a hitherto unstudied mode of
detective fiction in the midcentury.
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