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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Patricia Highsmith (category Members of the Detection Club)
    University. Retrieved December 29, 2015. Michaud, Jon (January 25, 2010). "Book Club: Highsmith and The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 24, 2017...
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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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    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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    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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  • Peter Dickinson (category Members of the Detection Club)
    Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective...
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  • Anthony Price (category Members of the Detection Club)
    Alan Anthony Price (16 August 1928 – 30 May 2019) was an English author of espionage thrillers. Price was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England...
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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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  • John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris (category Members of the Detection Club)
    John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris (3 November 1908 – 6 August 1988) was a one time MI5 counterspy and an English novelist who published 17...
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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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    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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  • Celia Fremlin (category Members of the Detection Club)
    Celia Margaret Fremlin (20 June 1914 – 16 June 2009) was an English writer of mystery fiction. Celia was born in Ryarsh, Kent, England. She was the daughter...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Janet Cohen, Baroness Cohen of Pimlico (category Members of the Detection Club)
    Janet Cohen, Baroness Cohen of Pimlico (née Neel; born 4 July 1940), also known as Janet Neel, is a British lawyer and crime fiction writer. She is the...
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  • Gavin Lyall (category Members of the Detection Club)
    Gavin Tudor Lyall (9 May 1932 – 18 January 2003) was an English author of espionage thrillers. Lyall was born in Birmingham, then in Warwickshire (now...
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