History Main / GenteelInterbellumSetting

* Various books by EvelynWaugh (most notably ''Vile Bodies'' and ''BridesheadRevisited'')

In his short story ''Umney's Last Case'', StephenKing 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.

* GKChesterton's ''FatherBrown'' stories.

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This trope was formerly named "Christie Time" after the period when most (if not all) of Creator/AgathaChristie's HerculePoirot {{novels}} are thought to be set (they actually cover a time period of 1916 to the early 1970s, suggesting that Poirot lives to be over a hundred years old) and when all said TV adaptations are set. It could well have been called [[PGWodehouse Wodehouse]] Time also.

* PGWodehouse's Literature/JeevesAndWooster stories are often remembered as this, but in fact they do have occasional references that establish the passing of time (there's a past-tense mention of World War II in at least one of the later ones, and so on). [[Series/JeevesAndWooster The TV series]] is definitely and deliberately set in Christie Time, though.

This trope was formerly named "Christie Time" after the period when most (if not all) of AgathaChristie's HerculePoirot {{novels}} are thought to be set (they actually cover a time period of 1916 to the early 1970s, suggesting that Poirot lives to be over a hundred years old) and when all said TV adaptations are set. It could well have been called [[PGWodehouse Wodehouse]] Time also.

* Former TropeNamer AgathaChristie:

* The ThinMan film series, depicting the adventures of Nick and Nora Charles.

* DashiellHammett's TheThinMan epitomizes the high-life in New York during this period.

* ''{{Rupert}}'' (which actually began in 1920) and other British children's NewspaperComics.

* The ThinMan film series, chronicling the adventures of Nick and Nora Charles.

An unspecified (usually) date somewhere between the end of WorldWarOne in 1918 and the commencement of WorldWarTwo in 1939. A time of women in evening gowns and gentlemen in dinner jackets mingling at well-to-do cocktail parties, rich tweed-clad country gentlemen and detectives who are veterans of TheGreatWar. Lots of action takes place in big country houses and small surrounding villages in the countryside, often involving (depending on the author/genre) either wacky romantic misunderstandings or cold-blooded acts of murder, both of which evolve around complex, labyrinthian schemes. In the more urban areas (usually either London or New York), there's lots of Art Deco around, swank parties, heavy drinking, and gay repartee. While TheRoaringTwenties and then TheGreatDepression both took place around this period, the rather conservative and patrician milieu of the Genteel Interbellum Setting tends to keep the era's real-world social, cultural, and political upheavals somewhat at arm's length.

An unspecified (usually) date somewhere between the end of WorldWarOne in 1918 and the commencement of WorldWarTwo in 1939. A time of women in evening gowns and gents in dinner jackets mingling at well-to-do cocktail parties, maids with noticeable cockney accents, rich tweed-clad country gentlemen and World War I-refugee detectives. Lots of action takes place in big country houses and small surrounding villages in the English countryside, often involving (depending on the author/genre) either wacky romantic misunderstandings or cold-blooded acts of murder, both of which evolve around complex, labyrinthian schemes. In the more urban areas, there's lots of Art Deco around. While TheRoaringTwenties and then TheGreatDepression both took place around this period, the rather conservative and patrician milieu of the Genteel Interbellum Setting tends to keep the era's real-world social, cultural, and political upheavals somewhat at arm's length.

In his short story ''Umney's Last Case'', StephenKing refers to an American equivalent as {{Chandler American Time}}.

* The ThinMan film series, chronicling the adventures of Nick andNoraCharles.

* The ThinMan film series, chronicling the adventures of NickandNoraCharles.

* ''{{Clue}}'' / ''Cluedo''

* ''Gosford Park''

* ''Rupert'' (which actually began in 1920) and other British children's NewspaperComics.

* KerryGreenwood'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-WorldWarI Paris).

This trope was formerly named "Christie Time" after the period when most (if not all) of AgathaChristie's HerculePoirot {{novels}} are thought to be set (they actually cover a time period of 1916 to the early 1970s, suggesting that Poirot lives to be over a hundred years old) and when all said TV adaptations are set. There might well be a case for calling this [[PGWodehouse Wodehouse]] Time.

* TropeNamer AgathaChristie:

** ''The Secret Adversary'' (1922), which introduced Tommy and Tuppence, not so long after they were both out of work due to the end of WorldWarI. ''Partners in Crime'' (1929) is a series of linked short stories about their joint venture in running a detective agency.
*** However, unlike Poirot mentioned above, Tommy and Tuppence aged sort-of real time.

* Most of HPLovecraft's stories take place in this time period, appropriately enough as it covers the span of his litterary career and far preferred Ye Olde Anglo-Saxon way of life to the hustle and bustle of contemporary urban America; as the setting is LovecraftCoutry, it remains credible.

* Most of HPLovecraft's stories take place in this time period, appropriately enough as it covers the span of his litterary career and far preferred Ye Olde Anglo-Saxon way of life to the hustle and bustle of contemporary urban America.

* Most of HPLovecraft's stories take place in this time period, appropriately enough as it covers the span of his litterary career.

This trope was formerly named "Christie Time" after the period when most (if not all) of AgathaChristie's HerculePoirot {{novels}} are thought to be set (they actually cover a time period of 1916 to the early 1970s, suggesting that Poirot lives to be over a hundred years old) and when all said TV adaptations are set. There might well be a case for calling this [[PGWodehouse Wodehouse]] Time. The historical name for this period is the Interbellum. Later portrayals may see it combined with DieselPunk.

An unspecified (usually) date somewhere between the end of WorldWarOne in 1918 and the commencement of WorldWarTwo in 1939. A time of women in evening gowns and gents in dinner jackets mingling at well-to-do cocktail parties, maids with noticeable cockney accents, rich tweed-clad country gentlemen and World War I-refugee detectives. Lots of action takes place in big country houses and small surrounding villages in the English countryside, often involving (depending on the author/genre) either wacky romantic misunderstandings or cold-blooded acts of murder, both of which evolve around complex, labyrinthian schemes. In the more urban areas, there's lots of Art Deco around. While TheRoaringTwenties and then TheGreatDepression both took place around this period, the rather conservative and patrician milieu of Christie Time tends to keep the era's real-world social, cultural, and political upheavals somewhat at arm's length.

This trope is named after the period when most (if not all) of AgathaChristie's HerculePoirot {{novels}} are thought to be set (they actually cover a time period of 1916 to the early 1970s, suggesting that Poirot lives to be over a hundred years old) and when all said TV adaptations are set.

There may well be a case for calling this [[PGWodehouse Wodehouse]] Time. The historical name for this period is the Interbellum. Later portrayals may see it combined with DieselPunk.

* JoWalton's AlternateHistory ''Literature/SmallChange'' trilogy takes place in an extended ChristieTime: Britain's fascist-sympathetic government stays out of WWII, while one main character is a homicide detective whose investigations drag him deeper and deeper into a conspiracy trying to keep it that way.

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=190C8rRKe3w opening titles]] are practically ChristieTime incarnate.