TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwards,Martin
TI  - The golden age of murder: the mystery of the writers who invented the modern detective story 
SN  - 9780008105969
AV  - PR 830 .D4 E39 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Detection Club
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Bio-bibliography
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Novelists, English
KW  - Biography
KW  - Murder in literature
N1  - Includes facsimile reproductions of the 1932 Constitution and Rules of the Detection Club (pages 441-447); Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-457) and indexes; Part one: the unusual suspects. The ritual in the dark ; A bitter sin ; Conversations about a hanged woman ; A Bolshevik soul in a Fabian muzzle ; Wearing their criminological spurs ; The art of self-tormenting -- Part two: the rules of the game. Setting a good example to the Mafia ; The Fungus-story and the meaning of life ; Wistful plans for killing off wives ; The least likely person ; The best advertisement in the world -- Part three: looking to escape. "Human life's the cheapest thing there is" ; Echoes of war ; Murder, transvestism and suicide during a trapeze act ; A severed head in a fish-bag ; "Have you hear of sexual perversions?" ; Clearing up the mess ; What it means to be stuck for money ; Neglecting Demosthenes in favour of Freud -- Part four: taking on the police. Playing games with Scotland Yard ; Why was the shift put in the boiler-hole? ; Trent's very last case ; A coffin entombed in a crypt of granite -- Part five: justifying murder. Knives engraved with "Blood and honour" ; Touching with a fingertip the fringe of great events ; Collecting murderers ; No judge or jury but my own conscience -- Part six: the end game. Playing the grandest game in the world ; The work of a pestilential creature ; Frank to the point of indecency ; Shocked by the brethren -- Part seven: unravelling the mysteries. Murder goes on forever
N2  - "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."--Publisher's description
ER  -