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Group of British mystery writers founded in 1930
The Detection Club meeting in 1932, when G. K. Chesterton was its President
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, Arthur Morrison, Hugh Walpole, John Rhode, Jessie Rickard, Baroness Emma Orczy, R. Austin Freeman, G. D. H. Cole, Margaret Cole, E. C. Bentley, Henry Wade, Constance Lindsay Taylor and H. C. Bailey. Anthony Berkeley was instrumental in setting up the club, and the first president was G. K. Chesterton. There is a fanciful initiation ritual with an oath written by Sayers, and the club hold regular dinner meetings in London.
The DetectionClub was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts...
Josephine Bell, pseudonym of Doris Bell Collier, (8 December 1897 – 24 April 1987), was an English physician and writer. Bell wrote nineteen novels and...
Empire (CBE) in the 1956 New Year Honours. She was co-president of the DetectionClub from 1958 to her death in 1976.: 93 In 1961, she was awarded an honorary...
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...
collaborative detective novel written by fourteen members of the British DetectionClub in 1931. The twelve chapters of the story were each written by a different...
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...
her novel Raven Black, and in 2008 she was elected to the prestigious DetectionClub. In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the...
Denise Mina (born 21 August 1966) is a Scottish crime writer and playwright. She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring...
novel, shortlist, Black and Blue 1998 Inducted into the prestigious DetectionClub 1999 University of Abertay Dundee honorary doctorate 2000 University...
1930, a group of British Golden Age authors came together to form the DetectionClub. In addition to meeting for dinners and helping each other with technical...
Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the prestigious DetectionClub in 1978. Hill was born to a "very ordinary" family. His father, Reg...
Howdunit! A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the DetectionClub. London: Collins Crime Club. ISBN 978-0-0083-8013-7. Gosden, Peter H. J. H. (2013)...
Mystery occurred in 1987. McDermid was inducted into the prestigious DetectionClub in 2000, and won the CWA Diamond Dagger for her lifetime contribution...
production, in the 1966 Queen's Birthday Honours 1974 – Inducted into the DetectionClub 1978 – Received the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement as a...
O-Level". In 1980, he was elected a member of the by-invitation-only DetectionClub. In 2005 Dexter became a Fellow by Special Election of St Cross College...
the classic Poisoned Chocolates Case. In 1930, Berkeley founded the DetectionClub in London along with Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts and other...
"decalogue" of ten commandments. He was one of the founding members of the DetectionClub and wrote several works of detective fiction, including five novels...
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...
(the latter two won awards). She was inducted into the prestigious DetectionClub in 1996. Dudley Edwards has been a long-term columnist with the Irish...
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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