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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
Perhaps, but I think Van Dine is previous to Agatha Christie and it's already a cozy (Philo Vance is not a detective but a dilettante, in the same way than Lord Peter Wimsey).
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Christie was actually a little earlier. The first "Philo Vance" mystery (The Benson Murder Case) was published in 1924; the first Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles) in 1920.