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Martin Edwards. The Golden Age of Murder
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
Notes
Members of the Detection Club elected 1930–49
Author Gallery
1. The Ritual in the Dark
Dorothy L. Sayers and John Rhode with Eric the Skull, photographed by Clarice Carr (by permission of Douglas G. Greene)
The Detection Club annual dinner, presided over by G.K. Chesterton
Notes to Chapter 1
2. A Bitter Sin
Dorothy L. Sayers and the mysterious Robert Eustace – photographed to publicise The Documents in the Case (by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
Dorothy L. Sayers (by permission of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society)
Notes to Chapter 2
3. Conversations about a Hanged Woman
Notes to Chapter 3
4. The Mystery of the Silent Pool
Notes to Chapter 4
5. A Bolshevik Soul in a Fabian Muzzle
Notes to Chapter 5
6. Wearing their Criminological Spurs
Anthony Berkeley (by permission of Celia Down)
The Cox siblings: Stephen, Anthony Berkeley, and Cynthia
Agatha Christie’s notebook 41: extract featuring a story idea based on the Detection Club (by permission of the Christie Archive Trust)
The cover of Collins’ Crime Club newsletter for autumn 1939
Two sample pages from Collins’ Crime Club newsletter
The Crime Club News’ back page advertisement for Milward Kennedy’s reviews in the Sunday Times
Notes to Chapter 6
7. The Art of Self-Tormenting
Notes to Chapter 7
8. Setting a Good Example to the Mafia
Notes to Chapter 8
9. The Fungus-Story and the Meaning of Life
Notes to Chapter 9
10. Wistful Plans for Killing off Wives
The endpapers for Anthony Berkeley’s The Second Shot, showing Minton Deeps, and ‘supposed positions’ of the prime suspects
Notes to Chapter 10
11. The Least Likely Person
Notes to Chapter 11
12. The Best Advertisement in the World
Notes to Chapter 12
13 ‘Human Life’s the Cheapest Thing There Is’
Pages from Richard Austin Freeman’s coded diary (by permission of David Chapman)
Notes to Chapter 13
14. Echoes of War
Notes to Chapter 14
15. Murder, Transvestism and Suicide during a Trapeze Act
Notes to Chapter 15
16. A Severed Head in a Fish-Bag
Notes to Chapter 16
17 ‘Have You Heard of Sexual Perversions?’
Notes to Chapter 17
18. Clearing Up the Mess
Notes to Chapter 18
19. What it Means to Be Stuck for Money
Notes to Chapter 19
20. Neglecting Demosthenes in Favour of Freud
Notes to Chapter 20
21. Playing Games with Scotland Yard
Six against the Yard, a copy inscribed by the authors and presented by Dennis Wheatley to socialite and book collector Eileen Conn
Notes to Chapter 21
22. Why was the Shift Put in the Boiler-Hole?
Notes to Chapter 22
23. Trent’s Very Last Case
Notes to Chapter 23
24. A Coffin Entombed in a Crypt of Granite
Notes to Chapter 24
25. Knives Engraved with ‘Blood and Honour’
Notes to Chapter 25
26. Touching with a Fingertip the Fringe of Great Events
Notes to Chapter 26
27. Collecting Murderers
Notes to Chapter 27
28. No Judge or Jury but My Own Conscience
Notes to Chapter 28
29. Playing the Grandest Game in the World
Examples from the Crime Club Card Game, devised by Peter Cheney
Notes to Chapter 29
30. The Work of a Pestilential Creature
Notes to Chapter 30
31. Frank to the Point of Indecency
Notes to Chapter 31
32. Shocked by the Brethren
Photos by Elisabeth Chat featured in Picture Post’s ‘Behind the Whodunits’ in 1952 featuring G.D.H. and M. Cole in their Flamstead home; Gladys Mitchell promoting sports training for schoolgirls at Brentford; Oxford men Michael Innes and Nicholas Blake; and railway enthusiast Freeman Wills Crofts demonstrating how signals were meant to imitate the action of the human arm
Notes to Chapter 32
33. Murder Goes On Forever
Notes to Chapter 33
Select Bibliography
Index
Index of Titles
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Publisher
