The golden age of murder : the mystery of the writers who invented the modern detective story /
"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.
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| Published: | London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015. ©2015. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The golden age of murder : |b the mystery of the writers who invented the modern detective story / |c Martin Edwards. |
| 264 | 1 | |a London : |b HarperCollinsPublishers, |c 2015. | |
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| 300 | |a xxiv, 481 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 500 | |a Includes facsimile reproductions of the 1932 Constitution and Rules of the Detection Club (pages 441-447) | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-457) and indexes. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Novelists, English |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Murder in literature. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006704. | |
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