The Detection Club was formed in the 1920s by a group of British mystery writers including such well known authors as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Ronald Knox. In addition to getting together for dinners and helping each other with technical aspects in their individual writings, the members of the club agreed to adhere to a code of ethics in their writing to give the reader a fair chance at guessing the guilty party. 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... In modern colloquial English, a mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction (see mystery fiction). ... Agatha Christie Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976), was a British crime fiction writer. ... Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. ... For the town of Chesterton in Cambridgeshire, see Chesterton (Cambridge). ... Freeman Wills Crofts (1879-1957) was born in Dublin, Ireland. ... Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1888-1957) was an English theologian and crime writer. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ...

In fact, the 'rules' (no mysterious "Orientals" or undetectable poisons, at most one secret passage, etc.) were formulated by Knox. Chesterton never took any notice, and Christie would certainly skirt these guidelines on occasion. (See history of crime fiction for details.) Crime fiction is a typically 20th century genre, dominated by British and American writers. ...

This club has continued to this day, in one form or another. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

A number of works were published under the club's sponsorship. Most of these were written by multiple members of the club, each contributing one or more chapters in turn. In the case of The Floating Admiral, each author also provided a sealed "solution" to the mystery as he or she had written it, including the previous chapters. This was done to prevent a writer from adding impossible complications with no reasonable solution in mind. The various partial solutions were published as part of the final book. The Floating Admiral is a collaborative detective novel written by members of the Detection Club in 1931. ...

A known list of such publications includes:

• The Scoop and Behind the Screen (1931)
• The Floating Admiral (1931,1932)
• Ask a Policeman (1933)
• The Anatomy of a Murder (1936)
• Double Death: An Exercise in Detection aka Double Death: A Murder Story (1939)
• Six Against the Yard (1948)
• No Flowers By Request (1953)
• Crime on the Coast (1954)
• Verdict of Thirteen (1978)
• The Man Who... (1992)

The Floating Admiral is a collaborative detective novel written by members of the Detection Club in 1931. ...

External links

• http://www.detectionclub.com/
• http://www.cs.appstate.edu/~sjg/detectionclub.html
• http://www.sfu.ca/english/Gillies/Engl38301/oath.htm