The Detection CollectionSigned by Simon Brett, John Harvey, Robert Goddard, Michael Ridpath and P. D. James This superb collection of new and previously unpublished crime stories celebrates 75 years of The Detection Club. The Detection Club represents the cream of British crime writing talent. Appropriately for such a society, the precise date of the Club's founding is shrouded in mystery, but the Club was formalised with a constitution and rules in1932. Its first president

the fifteen-year-old 'London Baby'

a graduate student battling her own demons of failure and thwarted ambition

mystifying case

ambition and the dawn of the modern age

An adventure that will take them from the City of Sun to the depths of the City of Flames

But they are not the only ones with secrets

and the entire edifice of masculinity

Can Uncle possibly escape this time

reluctant as he is to let this event be smugly relegated to the category of 'not worth dealing with'

Martin Radford

When a deadly accident befalls the one man who could shed some light on Kay

Convent school provides a certain sanctuary