The Detection Club, sometimes referred to as the London Detection Club, was founded by Anthony Berkeley in 1928. The chair was occupied first by GK Chesterton and then by EC Bentley. Formal record-keeping began in 1930. John Dickson Carr was one of the Club's most active members. The Club occasionally publishes joint works to raise money; these are listed below. The members of the club, with their date of joining, are shown here. It can be seen that by 1958 membership of the Club was no longer a guarantee of Golden Age status or of publishing success, and that arguably the last Golden Ager to (belatedly) join the Club was Ngaio Marsh in 1974.
1930 Ronald Knox 1930 R Austin Freeman 1930 HC Bailey 1930 EC Bentley 1930 Anthony Berkeley 1930 GK Chesterton 1930 Agatha Christie 1930 GDH Cole 1930 Manning Coles 1930 JJ Connington 1930 Clemence Dane 1930 Eustace, Robert 1930 Lord Gorell 1930 Edgar Jepson 1930 Ianthe Jerrold 1930 Milward Kennedy 1930 Dorothy L Sayers 1930 Victor L Whitechurch 1930 AEW Mason 1930 AA Milne 1930 Arthur Morrison 1930 Baroness Orczy 1930 John Rhode 1930 Simpson, Helen 1930 Henry Wade 1930 Hugh Walpole 1930 Freeman Wills Crofts 1933 Anthony Gilbert 1933 Gladys Mitchell 1933 ER Punshon 1934 Margery Allingham 1935 Norman Kendal 1936 John Dickson Carr 1937 Nicholas Blake 1937 Christopher Bush 1937 Newton Gale 1937 ECR Lorac 1946 Christianna Brand 1946 Alice Campbell 1946 Cyril Hare 1946 Richard Hull 1947 Edmund Crispin 1947 Val Gielgud 1948 Dorothy Bowers 1949 Douglas G Browne 1949 Michael Gilbert 1949 Michael Innes 1950 Mary Fitt 1951 Julian Symons 1952 Eric Ambler 1952 Andrew Garve 1954 Josephine Bell
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1955 Glyn Carr 1955 Roy Vickers 1957 Macdonald Hastings 1958 G Belton Cobb 1958 Edward Candy 1958 EH Clements 1958 Katherine Farrer 1958 Elizabeth Ferrars 1958 JC Masterman 1958 John Trench 1958 Clifford Witting 1959 Margot Bennett 1959 Dorothy Eden 1959 George Milner 1959 Michael Underwood 1960 William Mole 1961 Guy Cullingford 1961 John Sherwood 1962 Mary Kelly 1963 John Fleming 1963 Celia Fremlin 1963 Anthony Lejeune 1964 John Blackburn 1965 William Haggard 1966 Dick Francis 1966 HRF Keating 1967 Francis Clifford 1968 John Bingham 1968 Henry Cecil 1968 Gavin Lyall 1968 Miles Tripp 1969 Len Deighton 1969 Peter Dickinson 1970 Douglas Rutherford 1970 Colin Watson 1971 Joan Aiken 1971 Patricia Moyes 1971 Anthony Price 1972 PD James 1972 Jean Stubbs 1973 Kenneth Benton 1973 Jean Bowden 1974 Gwendoline Butler 1974 John Le Carre 1974 Peter Lovesey 1974 Ngaio Marsh 1975 Patricia Highsmith 1975 Michael Kenyon 1975 Laurence Meynell 1975 Robert Player 1976 Geoffrey Household 1976 James McClure |
1976 Anne Morice 1976 Margaret Yorke 1977 Ruth Rendell 1978 Desmond Bagley 1978 Simon Brett 1978 Celia Dale 1978 Reginald Hill 1979 Lionel Davidson 1980 Colin Dexter 1981 Catherine Aird 1982 June Thomson 1983 John Wainwright 1985 Antonia Fraser 1985 Jessica Mann 1986 James Melville 1987 Jonathan Gash 1987 Tim Heald 1988 George Sims 1988 David Williams 1989 Susan Moody 1990 Anthea Fraser 1991 Robert Barnard 1991 Liza Cody 1992 Bertie Denham 1993 John Malcolm 1993 Michael Z Lewin 1994 Lindsey Davis 1994 Frances Fyfield 1995 Andrew Taylor 1996 Ruth Dudley-Edwards 1997 Michael Hartland 1998 John Harvey 1998 Ian Rankin 1999 Robert Goddard 1999 Ann Granger 2000 Natasha Cooper 2000 Val McDermid 2000 Janet Neel 2001 Frank Delaney 2001 Russell James 2001 Janet Laurence |
G.K. Chesterton, 1930-1936
E.C. Bentley, 1936-1949
Dorothy L. Sayers, 1949-1958
Agatha Christie, 1958-1976
(Lord Gorell, co-President with Christie, 1958-1963)
Julian Symons, 1976-1985
H.R.F. Keating, 1985-2000
Simon Brett, 2000-present
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