The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts...
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collaborative detective novel written by fourteen members of the British Detection Club in 1931. The twelve chapters of the story were each written by a different...
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Val McDermid (category Members of the Detection Club)
was published in 1987. McDermid was inducted into the prestigious Detection Club in 2000. In 2010 she won the CWA Diamond Dagger for her lifetime contribution...
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1930, a group of British Golden Age authors came together to form the Detection Club. In addition to meeting for dinners and helping each other with technical...
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edition was published as The Mystery of the Blue Geraniums, and Other Tuesday Club Murders by Bantam Books in 1940. Republished in 1960 as The Mousetrap and...
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Ann Granger (category Members of the Detection Club)
Friedmann Literary Agency. Retrieved 4 June 2023. "The Detection Club". Golden Age of Detection. Retrieved 4 June 2023. "Ann Granger - Author Information...
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Colin Dexter (category Members of the Detection Club)
O-Level". In 1980, he was elected a member of the by-invitation-only Detection Club. In 2005 Dexter became a Fellow by Special Election of St Cross College...
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Ann Cleeves (category Members of the Detection Club)
her novel Raven Black, and in 2008 she was elected to the prestigious Detection Club. In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the...
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Anthony Berkeley Cox (category Members of the Detection Club)
the classic Poisoned Chocolates Case. In 1930, Berkeley founded the Detection Club in London along with Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts and other...
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Ian Rankin (category Members of the Detection Club)
novel, shortlist, Black and Blue 1998 Inducted into the prestigious Detection Club 1999 University of Abertay Dundee honorary doctorate 2000 University...
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Len Deighton (category Members of the Detection Club)
Howdunit! A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club. London: Collins Crime Club. ISBN 978-0-0083-8013-7. Gosden, Peter H. J. H. (2013)...
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Cecil Day-Lewis (category Members of the Detection Club)
December 1935. Reprinted in Detection Medley, ed. John Rhode [Hutchinson, 1939]. Also published as "The Assassin's Club". Reprinted in Murder by the...
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Robert Goddard (novelist) (category Members of the Detection Club)
ISBN 9780593076361 One False Move (2019), ISBN 9780593076385 The Fine Art of Invisible Detection (2021), ISBN 9781787632349 This is the Night They Come For You (2022)...
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Andrew Taylor (author) (category Members of the Detection Club)
for the best historical novel of the year. He was inducted into The Detection Club in 1995. The American Boy, a gothic mystery linked to Edgar Allan Poe's...
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Reginald Hill (category Members of the Detection Club)
Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the prestigious Detection Club in 1978. Hill was born to a "very ordinary" family. His father, Reg...
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P. D. James (category Members of the Detection Club)
Murderous Tales, 2017) "The Part-time Job" (2005), first published in The Detection Collection, ed. Simon Brett "Hearing Ghote" (2006), first published in...
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Margery Allingham (category Members of the Detection Club)
November 1947. "On the Air". The Stage. 8 June 1950. CLUES: A Journal of Detection[permanent dead link] 23.1 (Fall 2004). Ed. Margaret Kinsman. Theme issue...
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Ngaio Marsh (category Members of the Detection Club)
production, in the 1966 Queen's Birthday Honours 1974 – Inducted into the Detection Club 1978 – Received the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement as a...
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Ronald Knox (category Members of the Detection Club)
"decalogue" of ten commandments. He was one of the founding members of the Detection Club and wrote several works of detective fiction, including five novels...
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The Floating Admiral 1931 Hodder and Stoughton With members of The Detection Club. A chapter each was completed by: Canon Victor Whitechurch, George and...
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H. R. F. Keating (category Members of the Detection Club)
chairman of the Society of Authors (1983–84) and president of the Detection Club (1985–2000). He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He...
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A. A. Milne (category Members of the Detection Club)
his family, the Royal Literary Fund, Westminster School and the Garrick Club. After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters...
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G. K. Chesterton (category Members of the Detection Club)
Chesterton nobelprize.org "Detection Club, The". Gadetection / Detection Club, The, gadetection.pbworks.com/w/page/7930445/Detection%20Club%2C%20The. Lauer...
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E. C. R. Lorac (category Members of the Detection Club)
and Trouble'. BBC Light Programme (Mystery Playhouse presents 'THE DETECTION CLUB'), 17 February 1948. 'Death in Park Lane'. Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane...
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Dorothy L. Sayers (category Members of the Detection Club)
Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh. She was a founder member of the Detection Club, and worked with many of its members in producing novels and radio serials...
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Eric Ambler (category Members of the Detection Club)
second of his two distinct periods in his writing. He was elected to the Detection Club in 1952, the first member to primarily write thrillers rather than traditional...
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Anthony Gilbert (writer) (category Members of the Detection Club)
Magazine, January 1974 Radio Plays as Anthony Gilbert Death at 6.30. (Detection Club, Series 1, Episode 1). BBC Home Service, 11 and 15 May 1940 The Honest...
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Margaret Cole (category Members of the Detection Club)
Daylight. BBC Home Service, 1 June 1934 The Bone of the Dinosaur. (Detection Club: Series 1, Episode 6). BBC Home Service, 23 and 27 November 1940 Margaret...
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Michael Gilbert (category Members of the Detection Club)
Michael Francis Gilbert CBE TD (17 July 1912 – 8 February 2006) was an English solicitor and author of crime fiction. Born on 17 July 1912 in Billinghay...
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Ruth Rendell (category Members of the Detection Club)
paper, the Chigwell Times. She submitted a story narrating a local sports club dinner she had not attended. Because of her absence at the dinner, she did...
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