Detection Club
The
Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British
mystery writers, including
Agatha Christie,
Dorothy L. Sayers,
Ronald Knox,
Freeman Wills Crofts,
Arthur Morrison,
Hugh Walpole,
John Rhode,
Jessie Louisa Rickard,
Baroness Orczy,
R. Austin Freeman,
G. D. H. Cole,
Margaret Cole,
E. C. Bentley,
Henry Wade,
Constance Lindsay Taylor and
H. C. Bailey.
Anthony Berkeley Cox was instrumental in setting up the club, and the first president was
G. K. Chesterton. There is a fanciful initiation ritual with an oath written by Sayers, and the club holds regular dinner meetings in London.
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