Motives for murder : a celebration of Peter Lovesey on his 80th birthday

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The Detection Club was founded by the creme de la crime of British crime writing in 1930 and its members included Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley and the Club's first president, G. K. Chesterton. The Detection Club was a way for crime writers to get together, socialize and discuss ideas, a tradition that continues to this day. Edited by current Detection Club President, Martin Edwards, Motives for murder introduces new storie...

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ISBN:

9780751566154

Description:

394 pages ; 20 cm

Contents:

Introduction / Martin Edwards
Foreword / Len Deighton
The reckoning of sins / Alison Joseph
The false Inspector Lovesey / Andrew Taylor
Dreaming of rain and Peter Lovesey / Ann Cleeves
The walrus and the spy / Catherine Aird
Unfinished business / David Roberts
The adventure of the Marie Antoinette necklace : a case for Sherlock Holmes / David Stuart Davies
An end in Bath / Janet Laurence
The Marquis Wellington jug / John Malcolm
A question of identity / Kate Charles
The mole catcher's daughter / Kate Ellis
The trials of Margaret / L.C. Tyler
Ghost station / Liza Cody
The suffragette's tale / Marjorie Eccles
Murder and its motives / Martin Edwards
Alive or dead / Michael Jecks
The right things / Michael Z. Lewin
The super recognizer of Vik / Michael Ridpath
Digging deep / Ruth Dudley Edwards
A sonnet for Peter Lovesey / Simon Brett
A village affair / Susan Moody
Afterword
Spies, superheroes and stolen goods: Peter Lovesey's memories of the Detection Club in the 1970s

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2217097

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Detection Club, author
Edwards, Martin, 1955- author, editor

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