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037 $bHarpercollins, 53 Glenmaura National Blvd Ste 300, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507-2132$nSAN 200-2086
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100 1 $aEdwards, Martin,$d1955-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe golden age of murder :$bthe mystery of the writers who invented the modern detective story /$cMartin Edwards.
264 1 $aLondon :$bHarperCollinsPublishers,$c2015.
300 $axxiv, 481 pages :$billustrations, portraits ;$c25 cm
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500 $aIncludes facsimile reproductions of the 1932 Constitution and Rules of the Detection Club (pages 441-447).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 449-457) and indexes.
505 0 $aPart 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.
520 $a"A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets."--$cPublisher's description.
610 20 $aDetection Club.
650 0 $aDetective and mystery stories, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aDetective and mystery stories, English$vBio-bibliography.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$vBio-bibliography.
650 0 $aNovelists, English$vBiography.
650 0 $aMurder in literature.
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