Keyword: «englishness»

The author undertakes an attempt to study the works by A. Christie in the light of correlation of a detective genre and the genre of lyrical-psychological novel. Two diffe rent genres are distinguished in her creation, but it should be mentioned that, they do not contradict each other but create a definite complex, in which a detective story is influenced by psychological analysis and lyricism and lyrical-psychological novel contains tragic, detective element.