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An unspecified (usually) date somewhere between the end of [[World War
This trope was formerly named "Christie Time" after the period when most (if not all) of [[
The historical name for this period is the Interbellum, hence the name. Later portrayals may see it combined with [[
In his short story ''Umney's Last Case'', [[Stephen King]] refers to a temporal variant, [[Chandler American Time]]. Here, the action is set at the very end of the period, just before America enters the War in 1941.
See also [[Old Dark House]], which is usually the setting for [[Ten Little Murder Victims]].
Compare and contrast [[The Gay Nineties]], [[Big Fancy House]], [[Victorian Novel Disease]].
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== [[Board Games]] ==▼
* ''[[Clue (Tabletop Game)|Clue]]'' / ''Cluedo''▼
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Gosford Park]]''
* ''[[Our Dancing Daughters]]''
* ''[[Bright Young Things]]'', the film version of Waugh's ''[[Vile Bodies]]''
* ''[[The Thin Man (
* The film version of [[Mrand Mrs North]].
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[
* Former [[Trope Namer]] [[
** ''The Secret Adversary'' (1922), which introduced [[
** Christie's final novel ''Curtain'' actually does provide a timeframe for her stories (or at least the ones about Poirot, though this would probably drag a lot of others into the mix as well by proxy due to overlapping characters), placing them in the period of the early 1920's through the early 1940's. This may not always be consistent with the details of all of her stories but at least it's established.
* [[Kerry Greenwood]]'s [[Phryne Fisher]] mysteries, which are mostly set in Australia during 1928 (although the last two books have moved into 1929, and ''Murder in Montparnasse'' had flashbacks to post-[[World War I]] Paris).
* [[Ngaio Marsh]]'s Roderick Alleyn mysteries.
* ''[[Lord Peter Wimsey|The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries]]'' by [[Dorothy L. Sayers]].
* Various books by [[Evelyn Waugh]] (most notably ''Vile Bodies'' and ''[[Brideshead Revisited]]'')
* [[
* Jean Ray's Harry Dickson novels.
* E. F. Benson's ''Mapp and Lucia'' books.
* Leslie Charteris' first few dozen stories about [[The Saint]]. But poor old Simon Templar, an RFC veteran from WWI, was still debonairly thirtyish in WWII, and still in harness in the 1983.
* [[Jo Walton]]'s [[Alternate History]] ''[[
* Most of [[
* S.S. Van Dine's erudite and sublimely supercilious [[Philo Vance]].
* Many of [[Rex Stout]]'s early [[Nero Wolfe]] novels are set in this period.
* [[Richard Lockridge]]'s husband and wife detectives, [[Mrand Mrs North]].
* [[Dashiell Hammett]]'s ''[[The Thin Man (
* [[The Phantom Detective]] provides a pulp-hero version of the genteel detective.
* ''[[The Grimnoir Chronicles]]'' occurs in an alternate history where individuals capable of magic started being born the previous century. As such it has diverged in a few notable ways, such as magical fire and lightning control making zeppelins far more prominent.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Downton Abbey]]''
* ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Jeeves and Wooster]]''
** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=190C8rRKe3w opening titles] are practically the
* ''[[Poirot]]''
* ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs]]'' and its lookalike ''[[The Duchess Of Duke Street]]'', for the most part, though both actually run from about 1900 to 1930.
** ''Brass'', a comedic British [[Nighttime Soap]] [[Affectionate Parody|Affectionately Parodied]] this style of drama, as well as ''[[Dallas]]'' and the like.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Rupert Bear
* ''[[Eberron]]'' is, by default, set in a fantasy equivalent.
== [[Theater]] ==
* Basically all of [[Noel Coward]]'s comedies, such as
** ''[[Blithe Spirit (
** ''[[Easy Virtue]]''
** ''[[Private Lives]]''
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* The ''[[Professor Layton]]'' series ''seems'' to be set in this, but the [[Anachronism Stew|anachronisms flow so thick,]] you might as well chalk it up to [[Purely Aesthetic Era]].
* The Amiga game ''Murder!'' is set in this kind of environment; the player character is in a mansion with a dead body and a lot of guests with secrets and has two hours to solve the crime before the police show up.
* ''[[The Last Express]]'' is set in 1914, just before WWI, is filled to the brim with Art Nouveau and is about [[Thriller
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