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The Detection Club

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London, The United Kingdom

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Mystery, Crime

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Formed c. 1930, the Detection Club is a group of (mostly British) mystery writers who occasionally write collaborative works.

Presidents:
G.K. Chesterton (1930–1936)
E. C. Bentley (1936–1949)
Dorothy L. Sayers (1949–1957)
Agatha Christie (1957–1976)
Lord Gorell (1957–1963)
Julian Symons (1976–1985)
H. R. F. Keating (1985–2000)
Simon Brett (2000–2015)
Martin Edwards (2015–)

Past members include: Anthony Berkeley, G.D.H. Cole, Margaret Cole, Freeman Wills Croft, Clemence Dane , Edgar Jepson, Milward Kennedy, Ronald Knox, John Rhode, Henry Wade, Victor L. Whitechurch, Gladys Mitchell, E.C.R. Lorac and Helen de Guerry Simpson ...more

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The Detection Club’s books

Average rating: 3.66 · 9,128 ratings · 874 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Floating Admiral by The Detection Club (Editor), G.K. Chesterton (Writer - Prologue), Victor L. Whitechurch (Writer - Ch. 01) 3.76 avg rating — 6,800 ratings — published 1931 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ask A Policeman by The Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers, Milward Kennedy 3.23 avg rating — 797 ratings — published 1933 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Against the Yard by The Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham 3.42 avg rating — 683 ratings — published 1937 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scoop / Behind the Screen by The Detection Club, Julian Symons (Editor), E.C. Bentley 3.40 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Detection Collection by The Detection Club, Simon Brett (Editor), Colin Dexter 3.45 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sinking Admiral by The Detection Club, Simon Brett (Editor and Contributor), Kate Charles (Contributor) 3.14 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Anatomy of Murder 3.40 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1937 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Anatomy of Murder by The Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers (contributor), Francis Iles (contributor) 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1936 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behind the Screen by The Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Za španielskou stenou by The Detection Club, Otakar Kořínek (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1931	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by The Detection Club (?)

“May all your problems be fictional and of your own devising, and may it be a very long time until you come to pen the words 'the end'.”
― The Detection Club

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“We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by our own private interpretation of the matter, we can see only the one possible motive behind the action, so that our solution may be quite plausible, quite coherent, and quite wrong.”
― The Detection Club, The Floating Admiral

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“I regret, my lord, to have seen no recent fashions designed to impress homicidal Archbishops.”
― The Detection Club, Ask A Policeman

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Polls

March side-read: English village mystery

The Key by Patricia Wentworth

8 votes, 22.9%

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers

7 votes, 20.0%

The Floating Admiral by The Detection Club

5 votes, 14.3%

Cover Her Face by P.D. James

5 votes, 14.3%

Fallen into the Pit by Ellis Peters

4 votes, 11.4%

Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh

3 votes, 8.6%

The Lake District Murder by John Bude

2 votes, 5.7%

Hand in Glove by Ngaio Marsh

1 vote, 2.9%

35 total votes

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