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000728565 1001_ $$aEdwards, Martin,$$d1955-$$eauthor.
000728565 24514 $$aThe golden age of murder :$$bthe mystery of the writers who invented the modern detective story /$$cMartin Edwards.
000728565 2463_ $$aMystery of the writers who invented the modern detective story
000728565 264_1 $$aLondon :$$bHarperCollinsPublishers,$$c2015.
000728565 264_4 $$c©2015
000728565 300__ $$axxiv, 481 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c25 cm
000728565 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent
000728565 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
000728565 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier
000728565 500__ $$aIncludes facsimile reproductions of the 1932 Constitution and Rules of the Detection Club (pages 441-447).
000728565 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 449-457) and indexes.
000728565 5050_ $$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.
000728565 520__ $$a"A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets."--Publisher's description.
000728565 61020 $$aDetection Club.
000728565 650_0 $$aDetective and mystery stories, English$$xHistory and criticism.
000728565 650_0 $$aDetective and mystery stories, English$$vBio-bibliography.
000728565 650_0 $$aEnglish fiction$$y20th century$$vBio-bibliography.
000728565 650_0 $$aNovelists, English$$vBiography.
000728565 650_0 $$aMurder in literature.
000728565 85200 $$bgen$$hPR830.D4$$iE39$$i2015
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