Editing Detection Club (section)

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{{Short description|Group of British mystery writers founded in 1930}}
[[File:The Detective Club Meeting.jpg|thumb|upright=2|The Detection Club meeting in 1932, when [[G. K. Chesterton]] was its President]]
The '''Detection Club''' was formed in 1930 by a group of British [[Mystery fiction|mystery]] writers, including [[Agatha Christie]], [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], [[Ronald Knox]], [[Freeman Wills Crofts]], [[Arthur Morrison]], [[Hugh Walpole]], [[John Rhode]], [[Jessie Louisa Rickard]], [[Baroness Orczy]], [[R. Austin Freeman]], [[G. D. H. Cole]], [[Margaret Cole]], [[Edmund Clerihew Bentley|E. C. Bentley]], [[Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet|Henry Wade]], [[Constance Lindsay Taylor]] and [[H. C. Bailey]]. [[Anthony Berkeley Cox]] was instrumental in setting up the club, and the first president was [[G. K. Chesterton]]. There is a fanciful initiation ritual with an oath written by Sayers, and the club holds regular dinner meetings in London.