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* 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]] ''[[Small Change]]'' trilogy takes place in an extended
* Most of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'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 [[Lovecraft Country]], it remains credible.
* S.S. Van Dine's erudite and sublimely supercilious [[Philo Vance]].
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* ''[[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.
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