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03378aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 4EABEAE0157F11E594EDEA9FDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150618010021 008 140825s2015 enkafh b 001 0 eng d 010 $a bd15133012 020 $a 0008105960 020 $a 9780008105969 040 $a MvI $b eng $c MvI $d SKYRV $e rda $d SILO 050 4 $a PR830.D4 $b E39 2015 082 04 $a 823.087209 $2 23 100 1 $a Edwards, Martin, $d 1955- 245 14 $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. 300 $a xxiv, 481 pages, [18] pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 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. 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. 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. 610 20 $a Detection Club. 650 0 $a Detective and mystery stories, English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Detective and mystery stories, English $v Bio-bibliography. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 20th century $v Bio-bibliography. 650 0 $a Novelists, English $v Biography. 650 0 $a Murder in literature. 941 $a 9 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417013923.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909040222.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220202015326.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20211102013411.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190226015316.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006084924.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180125063806.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20150728011026.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20150702021017.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4EABEAE0157F11E594EDEA9FDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search