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    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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    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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    Patricia Highsmith (category Members of the Detection Club)
    p. 130. ISBN 978-0-312-30375-4. Michaud, Jon (January 25, 2010). "Book Club: Highsmith and The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 24, 2017...
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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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  • 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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    Agatha Christie (category Members of the Detection Club)
    Empire (CBE) in the 1956 New Year Honours. She was co-president of the Detection Club from 1958 to her death in 1976.: 93  In 1961, she was awarded an honorary...
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  • Josephine Bell (category Members of the Detection Club)
    Josephine Bell, pseudonym of Doris Bell Collier, (8 December 1897 – 24 April 1987), was an English physician and writer. Bell wrote nineteen novels and...
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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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    Peter Robinson (novelist) (category Members of the Detection Club)
    Peter Robinson (17 March 1950 – 4 October 2022) was a British-born Canadian crime writer who was best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring...
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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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    Val McDermid (category Members of the Detection Club)
    Mystery occurred in 1987. McDermid was inducted into the prestigious Detection Club in 2000, and won the CWA Diamond Dagger for her lifetime contribution...
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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, thirteen days after his 74th birthday, his...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Denise Mina (category Members of the Detection Club)
    Denise Mina (born 21 August 1966) is a Scottish crime writer and playwright. She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Sophie Hannah (category Members of the Detection Club)
    Sophie Hannah (born 1971) is a British poet and novelist. Sophie Hannah was born in Manchester, England; her mother is the author Adèle Geras. She attended...
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    Edmund Clerihew Bentley (category Members of the Detection Club)
    1936 until 1949 Bentley was president of the Detection Club. He contributed to two crime stories for the club's radio serials broadcast in 1930 and 1931,...
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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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    Baroness Orczy (category Members of the Detection Club)
    chiefly used logic to solve crimes. Orczy was a founding member of the Detection Club (1930). Orczy's novels were racy, mannered melodramas and she favoured...
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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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    Antonia Fraser (category Members of the Detection Club)
    1983. From 1983 to 1984, she was president of Edinburgh's Sir Walter Scott Club. Fraser's study, The Warrior Queens (1989), is an account of military royal...
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