Detection Club
The Detection Club is a group of mystery, science fiction and crime writers.
Detection Club
The club was founded in 1928 in London. Among the 26 founding members were Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Henry Freeman Wills Crofts and Wade. The oath ( solemn oath ) of the club were the " Ten Rules for fair detective novel ".
The members of the club meet regularly for " dinner meetings " in which they share their claims when writing crime fiction. The picture is only by selection by the club, recording conditions are the personal recommendation by two members and the acceptance by the other members. Therefore, the club had always relatively few members in its history.
Some books were co-authored by several members of the club, these are known under the name " Detection Club Collection ".
In 1936 became the first American John Dickson Carr in the club.
The ten rules
The Ten Rules for fair detective novel (Father Knox's Decalogue ) were formulated in 1929 by Ronald Knox.
Knox exchanged with the other club members regularly on the claims when writing crime fiction from. As AA Milne in a preface to his book The Secret of the Red House criticized the writing of crime fiction by contemporary authors, Knox formulated in response his " Ten Rules for fair detective novel ", in the preface to the book edited by him book Best Detective Stories of 1928-1929 published. These rules, however, were not followed by all members of the Detection Club exactly as contrary example, even Agatha Christie and GK Chesterton in her novels, however. Some of them were even considered a joke.
Wording
The ten rules are: