Academic Paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.3, University of Heidelberg (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: This literary analysis addresses social themes in the detective novels of the world-famous author Agatha Christie. In particular, the focus is on the social structures of Britain between the world wars and the 1950s. The issue of social matters has not been a widely depicted one in the literary analysis of Agatha Christie's work. Early getting fame and being characterized as Queen of Crime, of course it is the detective fiction which is in the foreground of Christie's work. However, social issues do even play a significant role in her work.