Among the Thrillers
HE Detection Club is composed of what I think it would be appropriate to call the thin red line of detective novelists-a very select group. Dorothy Sayers, John Rhode, Anthony Gilbert, and Freeman Wills Croft are the prime movers. Here goes for a description of them: Miss Dorothy Sayers is tall, robust, round and rubicund, A cross between a guardsman and a female don with a jolly face (garnished with pince-nez), short grey curls, and a gruff voice. She writes her novels in penny exercise books and is, as perhaps not everybody knews, an ardent Anglo-Catholic, John Rhode is also large and rubicund. His real name is Street-Major Street-and I was told that he has been a very useful man in a service that does not issue a list of its officers. He has great charm, an engaging simplicity of manner, and very bright blue eyes. Freeman Wills Croft is not a family solicitor but he looks very like one. Anthony Gilbert is an extremely decorative woman. E. C, Bentley, the author of the classic Trent’s Last Case, is, or has been a pressman. He is short, stocky, and quiet. Agatha Christie was not at the party but I met her for a moment afterwards, and the creator of Hercule Poirot is a delightful person, and the wife of a distinguished archaeologist-(" The Queerest Party: A Meeting of the Detection Club." Ngaio Marsh, 4YA, February 17.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 141, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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239Among the Thrillers New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 141, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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