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A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors darkest secrets. Now an Edgar Award Nominee! This is the first book about the Detection Club, the worlds most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers. Drawing on years of in-depth research, it reveals the astonishing story of how members such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers reinvented detective fiction. Detective stories from the so-called Golden Age between the wars are often dismissed as cosily conventional. Nothing could be further from the truth: some explore forensic pathology and shocking serial murders, others delve into police brutality and miscarriages of justice; occasionally the innocent are hanged, or murderers get away scot-free. Their authors faced up to the Slump and the rise of Hitler during years of economic misery and political upheaval, and wrote books agonising over guilt and innocence, good and evil, and explored whether killing a fellow human being was ever justified. Though the stories included no graphic sex sc

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Author

Edwards, Martin

Publisher

Collins Crime Club, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780008105976

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography

Rating

3.97 / 5 (268 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14