Golden Age WhodunitsFifteen puzzling tales from the masters of the mystery genre Depending on who you ask, the term whodunit was first coined sometime around 1930, but the literary form predates that name by several decades. Still, it was in the years between the two World Warsthe so called Golden Age of mystery fictionthat the style flourished. Short mysteries were published far and wide by a variety of authors, not just those primarily associated with the genre. They