The Detection Club, established in 1930, is the world’s first social network for crime writers.
It’s founder fathers and mothers included Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and Anthony Berkeley.
Its current membership includes Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Richard Osman.
The current (and only the eighth) President, Martin Edwards, has released an updated edition of his book ‘The Golden Age of Murder’ in which he talks about the true cases which inspired the literary greats of the Inter-War years.
And he describes how many of our classic crime novels riff around the subject of a ‘justified murder.’
To WATCH this interview, click here: https://open.substack.com/pub/robertmurphy/p/video-interview-martin-edwards-president?r=1lsdh7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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: https://martinedwardsbooks.com/ and https://substack.com/@martinedwardsbooks/This podcast mentions an earlier episode about the Thompson-Bywaters with
case. You can hear that here:Love triangle: Fatal Attraction
In the early hours of October 4th 1922, a woman who was about to become Britain’s most notorious murder suspect walked home from the theatre with her husband.
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