Talk:Detection Club

Removed the link to a list of members, as that list no longer exists, and no other list seems googlable. The link to an oath is also stale, and should be either removed or replaced. Joshua Kronengold (talk) 05:41, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

It looks like most of this is a straight copy from this website: . I think the list of titles is from here, although I don't think you can copyright just a list.

This is definitely a copy, although at least the author edited it a little. Bart133


 * Could someone write a paragraph about the "known list of publications"? As far as I'm concerned, the following questions need to be answered:


 * (1) Who is the author / are the authors of those books? Right now, there is no mention of the fact that they were written jointly, but why?
 * (2) Are they all novels or do they include theoretical books?
 * (3) Were they published, i e written for the public?
 * (4) Are they available today?


 *  20:51, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)

If the club was founded in the 1930s, then why was Agatha Christie nearly kicked out of it for a novel she published in 1926? (see the Murder of Roger Ackroyd).

Big D 25 Jan 2006

Changed to 1920s as I found another source, and it makes a little more sense. Big D 27 Jan 2006

Silly Links
I removed the link on "this day" in "continued to this day" because:
 * It linked to 2006.
 * Even if it were fixed to always link to the current year, it is pointless and misleading. Anyone reading the page would, I think, expect the given link to go somewhere discussion the club's existence today, or maybe even its history... but certainly not to an article on (current year).

I removed the link to code of ethics because it was a link to a disambiguation page. Rather than re-pointing it to the correct page, I struck it for similar reasons to the this day link: it'd be expected to be a discussion of the club's code of ethics, not of codes of ethics in general. Derobert 00:55, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Current membership
It seems likely that the linked list of members, the one at the Golden Age of Detection wiki, is out of date. Neither Clare Francis nor Michael Ridpath is on the chart, and both of them have stories in The Detection Collection, edited by Simon Brett. So far I haven't been able to find a more current roster of the Club's members, so if anyone has a line on one your help would be appreciated.Bjones (talk) 04:38, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Crime on the Coast
In this edit removed Crime on the Coast from the list of books, on the grounds that it was not actually sponsored by the club. As confirmed by http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192891.Crime_on_the_Coast_No_Flowers_by_Request and http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/09/forgotten-book-crime-on-coast-no.html (and I'm sure I could find better sources) A joint edition of this with No Flowers by Request was published in 1984 as by the Detection Club, with the club name prominently featured on the Cover. I actually own a copy of this edition, and I will check to see what the introductory matter shows about the authorship and original sponsorship (If I can find my copy). But I can confirm that it was marketed as by the Club -- I bought it for that reason, having enjoyed The Floating Admiral. I suggest that, pending additional checking, Crime on the Coast should perhaps be restored to the article with a mention of the joint edition. DES (talk) 20:15, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Current president
added Martin Edwards as the president citing this blog entry as a source. I have removed the blog entry and replaced it with a cn tag. Blogs are not, in general, relaible sources, and as this is Edwards's own blog it is not an independent source. As this is presumably not a controversial statement, and there seems little doubt that it is in fact true, i did not remove it, merely left the citation needed tag in place. Also, when a proper source is found, it should be put inside a  tag, not as an inline external link, but that is a matter of formatting which anyone could fix given the proper source. DES (talk) 18:18, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

has now provided a more reliable source, and I have formatted it as a standard citation. Thanks. DES (talk) 19:30, 22 November 2015 (UTC)