Author Description

The Detection Club is the oldest and most exclusive crime writing organization and it has always represented the cream of British crime writing talent. The founding and early members were amongst the most famous and best loved figures in the golden age - Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesteron, Dorothy Sayers, John Dickson Carr (the only American ever to be a member) among others - and membership remains by invitation only. Now to celebrate the impending seventy-fifth anniversary of The Detection Club, its members have produced The Detection Collection - a collection of eleven new stories from the best and the brightest in the British crime field. This outstanding collection is a must for crime lovers everywhere. ***The Part-Time Job*** by P.D. James ***Partnership Track*** by Michael Ridpath ***A Toothbrush*** by H.R.F. Keating ***The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars*** by John Harvey ***'Going Anywhere Nice?*** by Lindsey Davis ***Between the Lines*** by Colin Dexter ***The Life-Lie*** by Robert Barnard ***The Woman From Marlow*** by Margaret Yorke ***Toupee for a Bald Tyre*** by Robert Goddard ***The Holiday*** by Clare Francis ***Fool of Myself*** by Reginald Hill ***The Detection Club: a brief history*** by Simon Brett