The Detection Collection

by Brett; The Detection Club

• ISBN13: 9780312357634
• ISBN10: 031235763X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-02
• Publisher: Minotaur Books

Summary

The Detection Club is the oldest and most exclusive crime writing organization and it has always represented the cream of British crime writing talent. The founding and early members were amongst the most famous and best loved figures in the golden age - Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesteron, Dorothy Sayers, John Dickson Carr (the only American ever to be a member) among others - and membership remains by invitation only. Now to celebrate the impending seventy-fifth anniversary of The Detection Club, its members have producedThe Detection Collection- a collection of eleven new stories from the best and the brightest in the British crime field. This original volume includes never-before-published stories from Lindsey Davis, P.D. James, Robert Barnard, Colin Dexter, John Harvey, Reginald Hill, Peter Lovesey, and others, as well as an introduction and history of the Detection Club from the current Club president Simon Brett. This outstanding collection is a true must-have volume for mystery lovers around the world.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
Simon Brett
The Part-time Job	3	(9)
P.D. James
Partnership Track	12	(14)
Michael Ridpath
A Toothbrush	26	(18)
H.R.F. Keating
The Sun, the Moon and the Stars	44	(18)
John Harvey
`Going Anywhere Nice?'	62	(16)
Lindsey Davis
Between the Lines	78	(13)
Colin Dexter
The Life-lie	91	(14)
Robert Barnard
The Woman from Marlow	105	(17)
Margaret Yorke
Toupee for a Bald Tyre	122	(20)
Robert Goddard
The Holiday	142	(27)
Clare Francis
Fool of Myself	169	(15)
Reginald Hill
The Detection Club -- A Brief History	184
Simon Brett