Discussion of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

 

General articles on the Golden Age

 

What is the Golden Age of Detection? by Wyatt James

 

The Sleuth Complex by Ronald Knox

 

Ronald Knox's Ten Commandments for Detective Fiction

 

For purists: More Commandments for Detective Fiction from the GAD group

 

Van Dine's Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories

 

The Great Detective Stories by WH Wright ('SS Van Dine')

 

Introduction to Crime and Detection by EM Wrong

 

How to Write a Detective Story by Edwin Baird

 

The Art of the Detective Story by R Austin Freeman

 

The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler

 

Introduction to a course on GAD by Jon Jermey

 

Mystery Related Essays by various authors

 

The Female Sherlock: Lady Detectives in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction by Chris Willis

 

Subgenres

 

Country-house mysteries -- an incomplete list

 

Hugo Gernsback on how to write a 'scientific' mystery

 

Locked-room mysteries and 'impossible' crimes

 

Films based on GAD stories

 

Review of The Detective in Film by William K. Everson (1972)

 

Early Australian crime fiction by Lucy Sussex

 

A page about Shorter Works by GAD Authors

 

Blurbs, blurbs, blurbs and other book cover lucubrations.

 

Lists

 

Haycraft-Queen cornerstones - the canonical list of important GAD works to 1952

 

Art Bourgeau's Favorites - the mystery fiction critic's list of classic stories.

 

The Crime Fighters by W.O.G. Lofts and Derek Adley: Great Fictional Detectives from A to F (sadly incomplete)

 

HRF Keating 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books 1845-1986

 

The Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Stories - selected by Julian Symons in 1957—58

 

Collins Crime Club UK first editions 1930-1960

 

Group favourites - the group's favourite stories, from a vote in 2003

 

Nick Fuller's Best Books - a list from a long-time member

 

GAD-related Tom Swifties by various group members

 

Humour

 

Maddened by Mystery, or The Defective Detective by Stephen Leacock

 

Ten Rules for Writing Golden Age Detective Fiction by Jon Jermey

 

Typo Titles - what might have happened if authors had misspelt their titles

 

Wodehouse on Crime - Much of his humour was criminous.

 

A review of The Case of the Ectoplasmic Ecdysiast, a very unreal book

 

Sherlock Holmes gets buzzed in Master Sleuth Unmasked at Last!

 

What not to do - a guide for successful murderers, with case notes.

 

Shorleck Humes goes Down Under to get to the bottom of things in The Adventure of the Illusory Client

 

International relations pass through dire straits in The Adventure of the Natal Treaty.

 

Gideon Fell, Hardboiled Sawbones by Barry Ergang

 

The High Little Sister in the Lake by Barry Ergang