‘fair play’ in detective fiction 111–17, 165, 187, 204, 242, 262, 307, 318, 439
Farjeon, J. Jefferson 351n
Farquharson, Colonel 68, 79n
Fascism 69, 268, 274, 305, 310–11, 326, 328–31, 358, 391, 392–3
First World War, 1914–18 6, 7, 9, 40, 116, 117–18, 152, 180, 192–5, 196, 197, 198, 199, 287
Fisher, Charlotte ‘Carlo’ 53, 65–6, 151
Fitt, Mary 84, 94n
Fitzgerald, Penelope 117, 443
Fleming, Oswald Arthur (‘Mac’) 24–5, 28–9, 84, 96, 126, 192, 193, 194–5, 204, 219–20, 228–9, 272, 305–6, 373, 384, 409–10, 422
Fleming, Rodney 160
Fletcher, J.S. 381n
Flynn, Gillian 432, 433, 436n
forensics 9, 177–8, 301
Forester, C.S. 146n
Forster, E. M. 137, 167–8
Fowle, Bertha 183, 184
Francis, Dick 130n
Franklin, Miles 223, 232n
Freeman, Annie 182–3, 184
Freeman, Richard Austin xix, 89, 148, 178–84, 185, 190n, 286–7, 302n, 370, 374, 381n, 388, 443
French, Sean 364n
Freud, Sigmund 7, 12n, 131, 241, 275
Froest, Frank 209n
Gaitskell, Hugh 72, 73, 77–8
Gaitskill, Mary 433, 436n
Gamba, Enrique 329
Gayle, Newton xx, 375, 381–2n
Gehlen, Adolph 200
General Strike, 1926 7, 65, 71–3, 161
George V, King 335
George VI, King 243, 337
Gielgud, John 160, 346
Gielgud, Val xx, 160, 302n, 384–5, 404, 410, 412n
Gilbert, Anthony viii, xix, 200, 203, 235, 236–9, 241, 243, 244, 245n, 254, 250, 254, 260–1, 267, 270n, 371, 373, 404, 408, 443
Gilbert, Michael xx, 250, 406, 410, 413n
Gilroy, John 26, 27, 56
Glauser, Friedrich 223, 232n
Gollancz, Victor 27–8, 32n, 127, 136, 137, 138, 139, 147n, 206, 218, 220, 228, 240, 250, 259, 262, 308–9, 310, 353, 354, 364n, 378–9, 396, 399, 402n
Goodman, Jonathan 295, 445
Gordon, Neil 210n
Gorell, Lord (Ronald Gorell Barnes) xix, 79n, 111–12, 157, 158, 192, 250, 264, 331, 410, 443
Graham, Winston 245n
Greenaway, Peter 432, 436n
Guedella, Philip 20, 31n
Guild Socialism 73–4, 75, 102, 262
Guinness, Maurice xx, 375, 381–2n
Haldane, Charlotte 23
Hall, Radclyffe 213
Hambrough, Cecil 188–9
Hamilton, Bruce 263, 357–8, 364n
Hammett, Dashiell 27, 116, 118, 405
Hannah, Sophie 433
Hare, Cyril xx, 253, 377, 405, 410, 432
Harrap 379
Harrington, Michael 360
Harris, Carlyle 86
Hauptmann, Bruno Richard 225–6
Hay-on-Wye Poisoner 135, 136
Haycraft, Howard 116, 121n, 200, 203, 440
Heilbrun, Carolyn G. 278
Hemingway, Ernest 348–9, 351n
Herbert, A. P. 146n, 403
Higham, David 28, 285–6, 306, 370
Highsmith, Patricia 100, 402n
Hitchcock, Alfred 9, 31n, 35, 37, 48, 65, 139, 144–5, 203, 211–13, 215, 216n, 257n, 258n, 349, 413n, 421, 423–4
Hitler, Adolf 223, 265, 266, 268, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 333, 336, 337, 338, 345, 346, 359, 361, 378, 392, 394n, 395, 401, 403
Horniman, Roy 290n
Horwood, Sir William 183, 198, 256n
Houghton, Claude 173n
Hughes, Leonora 115
Hull, Richard xx, 329–30, 357, 358–9, 377, 379, 390
Huxley, Aldous 137, 230n, 261–2
Inge, Dean 179, 190n
Innes, Michael xx, 166, 197, 209n, 276, 390, 406
‘inverted’ detective story 286–8, 386, 390
Ishiguro, Kazuo 433–4
Jack the Ripper 10, 45, 203, 204, 288
James, P. D. ix, 10, 197, 278, 279n, 293, 295, 302n, 425, 432, 434, 436–7n, 440
Jarrolds 399–400, 402n
Jarrow Crusade, 1936 69, 79n, 262, 310
Jepson, Edgar xx, 123, 127, 247, 374, 377
Jerrold, Ianthe xix, 250, 254, 256n, 377
jigsaw mysteries 379–80
John, Katherine 245n
John, Romily 245n
Jordan, Dr Julius 325–6
Joynson-Hicks, William 64–5
justified murder 132, 323–65
Kauffer, Edward McKnight 28
Kaye, Emily 168–9, 173n, 301
Keating, Harry viii, 80n, 373, 381n, 411, 436n, 440, 443
Kendal, Norman xix, 93, 283–5
Kennedy, Milward xix, 27, 51n, 127, 129n, 160, 166, 187, 194, 205–8, 209–10n, 222, 236, 247, 250, 251, 252–3, 254, 302n, 303, 331, 332, 334n, 353–5, 358, 360, 364–5n, 378, 380, 386, 387, 406
Kent, Constance 86, 99, 299–301, 446, 447
Keynes, John Maynard 77, 179
Kinder, Henry 296
King, C. Daly 115, 121n, 187, 191n
King, Rufus 115
Kipling, Rudyard 252
Kitchin, C.H.B. 230–1n
Knox, Dillwyn 117–18, 418–19
Knox, Ronald xix, 83, 84, 88, 90, 117–19, 161–2, 166, 167, 168, 173n, 180, 187, 191n, 197, 198, 247–8, 250, 253, 265–6, 285, 311, 329, 385, 387, 388, 394n, 418–19, 440, 441, 443, 444
Labour Party 7, 9, 69, 70, 71, 72, 77–8, 79n, 111, 157, 218, 262, 268, 275, 328, 402n
Lahlum, Hans Olav 432
Landru, Henri 297
Lane, John 60, 63
Langslow, Jane 259n
Larminie, Margaret Rivers 259n
Larsen, Gaylord 431–2, 436n
Larsen, Marie 114–15
Laski, Harold 328
Laurie, Joan Werner 408–9
Lawrence, D. H. 179, 240
Lawrence, T. E. 152, 274, 375–6
Lawson, Mark 139
le Carré, John 254, 434
Le Neve, Ethel 55, 356, 357
Leaf, Horace 55–6
Leavis, Q. D. 278, 280n, 433
Leblanc, Maurice 67n
Lee, Lord 275–6
Lee, Manfred 116, 121n
Lee, Muna xx, 375, 381–2n
Left Book Club, the 310, 379, 396
Lehmann, Rosamund 408
Leroux, Gaston 67n
Lewisohn, Walter 115
Liberal Party 31n, 68, 79n, 102, 157, 162, 215, 292
Lindbergh Jr, Charles 225–6
Lindbergh, Annie Morrow 225–6
Lindsay, Douglas 72
Lindsay, Jeff 100
Lindsay, Sandie 72
Links, J. G. 379
Litvinov, Maxim 402n
Lloyd George, David 79n, 111, 198, 228
locked room mystery 31n, 62, 67n, 76–7, 97, 111, 114–15, 123, 191n, 205, 207, 312, 316–17, 407, 408, 439
Lorac, E. C. R. xx, 375, 308
Low, Ivy 79n, 402n
Lowndes, Marie Belloc 137, 203
Lucas, Netley 25
Lunn, William 64, 65
Macaulay, Rose 137, 222, 231n
MacDonald, Philip 137, 250–1, 256–7n
MacDonald, Ramsay 71, 77, 157, 158
Macdonnell, A. G. 206, 210n
Mahon, Patrick 168–9, 171, 173n, 177, 301
Malleson, Lucy Beatrice 200, 236
Mallowan, Max 153, 154, 156, 166, 171–2, 226, 305, 309–10, 325, 343, 417, 419, 443
Mandel, Ernest 12n, 440
Mann, Jessica vii, 278
March, Maxwell 243
Marigny, Alfred de 337
Marsh, Ngaio 3–6, 12n, 62, 84, 154, 192, 197, 228, 242, 307, 408, 409, 420, 434, 442, 443, 444
Marshall, Howard 162
Marxism 6, 9, 12n, 23, 112, 223, 313n, 328, 357, 364n, 378, 390
Maschwitz, Eric 160, 385, 412n
Maskelyne, Jasper 64, 67n, 318
Mason, A. E. W. xix, 79n, 83, 371
&n
bsp; Massie, Hughes 59, 62
Masterman, J. C. 276, 279n
Maybrick, Florence 44–5, 46, 135, 288, 299, 320, 355, 446
McCabe, Cameron 377–9
McGerr, Patricia 139
McGuire, Paul 223, 232n
McHarg, William 182
Meade, L. T. 123
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer xiii, 307
Metropolitan Police 165, 183, 198, 256n
Meyrick, Kate 249, 250, 256n
MI5 418, 436n
Miller, Clara 58, 59, 61, 64
Miller, Frederick 58
Miller, Madge 58–9, 60, 61, 66, 420
Miller, Monty 59, 66, 193
Milne, A. A. xix, 112–14, 212, 253, 266, 371, 377, 444
Mitchell, Gladys xix, 27, 153, 235, 239–41, 243, 245n, 250, 252, 253, 264, 284, 371, 373, 384, 389, 408
Mitchell, Sheila 373–4
Mitchison, Dick 78
Mitchison, Naomi 78
Mogni, Gregorio 360–1
Money, Sir Leo 162, 198
Monson, Alfred John 188–9
Moral Rearmament 385
Morrah, Dermot 279n
Morrison, Arthur xix, 99–100, 153–4, 181, 374, 377, 444
Mosley, Sir Oswald 268, 328–30
Mundanus 308–9
‘murder dossiers’ 379–80
Mussolini, Benito 221, 254, 266, 267, 268, 305, 328, 329, 330, 331, 333, 336–7, 359, 361, 395
National Government, British 157–8, 219, 269, 337
Nazi Party 69, 102, 223, 325–6, 327, 337, 338, 362, 376, 378, 390, 392, 401, 418
Neele, Nancy 53, 54, 64, 66, 357
Negretti, Enrico 360
Notable British Trials 257n, 296, 300, 302n, 358, 446
Oakes, Sir Harry 337
Oliver, Alfred 207, 208, 352–3
Oliver, Annie 207
Oppenheim, Phillips 391
Orczy, Baroness xix, 91, 100–1, 371, 374, 377
Orwell, George 12n, 23, 32n, 37, 51n, 74, 288–9, 396, 402n
Osborne, Charles 154, 159n, 444
Othen, Lilian 49
Oxenham, John 210n
Oxford Group 385
Oxford Union 265–6
Oxford, Muriel 347–9, 351n
Paget, Sir James 297
Palmer, Annie 141–4
Palmer, Walter 142–3
Palmer, William 142–3
Parry, Richard Gordon 295
Patterson, Nan Randolph 319–20
Payne, Daniel 98
Payne, Laurence 31n
Pemberton, Max 55
Pengelly, William 348
Penguin Books 83, 84, 231n, 279n, 309–10, 445
Penny, Rupert 187, 191n
Peters, A. D. 49, 132–3, 403
Peters, Helen 47, 48, 139, 253, 333, 339, 426, 429, 430
Pitcairn, John James 181
Pitman, Isaac 183
Playfair cipher 221, 230n
Plomer, William 230n
Poe, Edgar Allan 10, 97, 103, 230n
Polioni, Seraphini 360–1
Postgate, Raymond 69, 74, 75, 77, 79–80n, 139, 357
Pound, Ezra 191n, 227, 233n
Powys Mathers, Edward 372, 379, 381n
Price, Clair 82, 94n, 235
Priestley, J. B. 372, 381n
Propper, Milton 115
Punshon, E. R. xix, 197, 200, 222, 226, 235–6, 244, 245n, 250, 254, 284, 293, 297, 302n, 326–8, 329, 339–40, 404, 406, 444
Queen, Ellery 116, 121n, 206, 362, 381n, 405, 441
Quince, James 394n
Rankin, Ian 433
Ransome, Arthur 222
Rattenbury, Alma 297–9
Rattenbury, Francis Mawson 297–9
Read, Herbert 222
Reckitt, Maurice 74
Reeve, Arthur B. 182
Rendell, Ruth 254, 425
Reynolds, Barbara 31n, 129n, 410, 444
Reynolds, Hilary 47
Rhode, John xix, 5, 51n, 80n, 83, 91, 94n, 147n, 190n, 194, 197, 199–204, 209n, 221, 230n, 236, 239, 244, 247, 248, 250, 251–4, 262, 293, 295–6, 299–301, 302n, 304, 319, 369, 370, 371, 372, 376, 377, 385, 407, 441, 446
Rickard, Mrs Victor xix, 192, 250, 256n, 257n
Rogers, Mary 97–8
Rohmer, Sax 118
Rolls, Anthony 365n
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 158, 258n, 346, 390
Roseveare, Dick 275–6
Ross, Barnaby 116
‘round robin’ story form 162–8, 220, 258n, 360, 434
Rouse, Alfred Arthur 177–8, 446
Rowling, J. K. 138, 146n, 433
Russell, Bertrand 305
Rutherford, Margaret xiii–ix, xiv
Sadleir, Michael 18, 303, 304
Sapper 6, 236, 391
Satterthwaite, Helen Kestner 22
Savidge, Irene 198
Sayers, Dorothy L. viii, ix, xiv, xv, xvii, xix, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n, 13–30, 31n, 32n, 35, 37, 38–9, 47, 55, 56, 64, 68, 69, 71, 73, 74, 83, 84, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94n, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 105, 107n, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 120, 123–4, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129n, 131, 132, 138, 141, 146n, 147n, 151, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 163, 166, 167, 169–70, 171, 172, 177, 178–9, 180, 184–5, 187, 191n, 192, 193, 198, 200, 203, 204, 205, 206–7, 211, 215, 216n, 220–1, 222–4, 226, 227–9, 230n, 231n, 233n, 234, 235, 236, 238, 239, 243, 244, 246, 247, 248, 250, 251, 252, 253–5, 256n, 257n, 258n, 259n, 261, 263–5, 267, 269, 271–3, 274, 276–8, 280n, 283, 284, 285–6, 287, 288, 289, 293–6, 300, 301, 302n, 303, 304, 305–8, 311, 312, 313n, 318, 320–1, 326, 330, 333, 335, 338, 340–1, 343, 345, 346–7, 349, 357, 358, 362, 365n, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 375, 376–7, 378, 383–5, 386, 387, 388, 390, 391, 398, 400, 403, 404, 405, 406, 408, 409–10, 413n, 420, 421–4, 425, 431, 432, 433, 434, 440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 447
Sayers, John Anthony 16, 22, 24, 26, 29, 215, 220, 229, 271, 277, 306, 307, 308, 410, 422
Schuster-Slatt, Sadie 180
Scotland Yard 10, 20, 48, 55, 64, 75, 76, 85, 100, 101, 111, 155, 171, 183, 195, 204, 235, 254, 275, 283, 285, 288, 356, 376, 388
Scott-Giles, Wilfred 376–7
Scott, Edward 188–9
Second World War, 1939–45 6, 40, 94n, 116, 129n, 139, 160, 213, 276, 300, 325, 332, 345–7, 358, 391, 400, 403–4, 418, 423–4, 429
serial killers 9, 10, 18, 31n, 49, 100, 188, 201, 203, 258n, 297, 344, 357, 433 see also under individual serial killer name
Shaffer, Anthony 259n, 412n
Shaffer, Peter 412n
Shanks, Edward 222, 230n
Sharp, Violet 225, 226
Shaw, George Bernard 179, 228
Sheriff, R. C. 193
Sherlock (TV programme) 432–3
Sherlock Holmes Society of London 253–4
Sherman, Vincent 424
Shrimpton, Ivy 16, 24, 29
Sickert, Walter 10
Sidney, Tom 149
Sidney, Vera 148–9
Sidney, Violet 148–9
Simenon, Georges 223, 233n
Simpson, Helen de Guerry viii, xix, 79n, 91–2, 93, 138, 212, 214–15, 216n, 235, 241, 252, 253, 254–5, 285, 293, 295–7, 302n, 306, 331, 338, 340, 373, 376, 377, 383, 385, 404, 423, 429
Simpson, Wallis 336–7, 338, 341
Skvorecky, Josef 119
Slater, Edalji 55, 98
Slater, Oscar 55, 98
Smith, Martha 304
socialism 68, 70, 71, 73–4, 75, 78, 102, 162, 188, 240, 261, 262, 396, 402n
Soviet Union 261, 310
Spain, Nancy 408–9, 412n
Spanish Civil War, 1936–9, 310–11, 313n, 351n
Spilsbury, Bernard 136, 168, 173n, 177, 178, 184, 254, 356, 412n, 445, 446
Sprigg, Christopher St John 79n, 223, 310–11, 313n
Spring, Howard 380, 398
SS Paris 347–9, 351n
Stalin, Josef 69, 79n, 329, 361, 396, 402n
Steeman, Stanislas-André 223, 232n
Stein, Gertrude 115–16
Stevenson, Burton E 62, 420
Stoker, Bram 162
Stoner, George 297–9
Stopes, Marie 21, 179
Stoppard, Tom 259n
Strachey, John 9, 12n, 310, 328, 390–1, 394n, 403
Strong, L. A. G. 403
Summerscale, Kate 299–300, 446
Swinnerton, Frank 304
Symons, Julian vii, viii, xiv, 38, 40, 52n, 68, 80n, 82, 86, 94n, 106, 165, 196, 201, 233n, 270n, 274–5, 278, 310, 311, 313n, 365n, 374, 379, 409, 424, 432, 434, 436n, 441, 446
Tatam, Walter 183
Taylor, Professor Alfred Swaine 143, 287
Tey, Josephine 250, 256n, 257n
Thomas, Alan 95n
Thompson, Edith 30, 34–7, 38, 39, 46–7, 51n, 125, 126, 135, 212, 257n, 288–9, 297, 299, 302n, 320, 349, 355, 359, 374, 400, 425, 426, 427, 446
Thompson, Percy 35–6, 37, 400
Thomson, H. D. 155
Thomson, Sir Basil 195–6, 198
Thorndike, Russell 290n
Tolkien, J. R. R. 217, 222, 228
Torquemada 222, 226, 254, 273, 372, 376, 379, 396, 417
Tynan, Kathleen 419
Underwood, Michael 410
Upfield, Arthur 223, 232n
Vickers, Roy 265, 288
Vosper, Frank 139, 212, 216n, 347–50, 351n
Vulliamy, C. E. 357, 365n
Wade, Henry xix, 51n, 80n, 83, 139, 192, 194–9, 202, 209n, 221–2, 224, 236, 247, 250, 256n, 264–5, 288, 302n, 303, 307, 384, 387, 289, 396–7, 405, 407
Wall Street Crash 7, 157, 309
Wallace, Edgar 52n, 55, 137, 148, 286–7, 315, 359
Wallace, Julia 10, 291–5, 301, 302n, 320–1, 349
Wallace, William Herbert 291–5, 1320–1
Walpole, Hugh xix, 7, 93, 137, 151, 162–5, 166, 168, 173n, 237, 296, 357, 401, 443
Walsh, Jill Paton 340–1, 342n, 404, 423
Waller, Eileen 203
Warner Allen, Herbert 303
Watson, Colin 58
Watt, James 58–9
Waugh, Evelyn 117, 387, 441
Waye, Cecil 137n
Weldon, Fay 127
Wentworth, Patricia 159n
Wheatley, Dennis 379
Whelpton, Eric 18, 20
White, Beatrice 15, 16, 422
White, Bill 15, 16, 21–2, 23, 422
White, Ethel Lina 31n
White, Valerie 15, 16
Whitechurch, Canon Victor Lorenzo xix, 100, 235, 247, 279n, 385, 394n
Whittington-Egan, Richard 150, 159n, 364n, 446
Wilkes, Roger 295, 446
Wilkinson, Ellen 79n, 262, 268
Willes, Peter 347, 348, 351n
Williams, Charles 222, 231n, 440
Williams, Emlyn 163, 214, 216n
Williams, Valentine 194, 209n, 244, 246
Wilson, Edmund 228, 233n, 382n, 433
Wilson, Harold 78
Winterton, Paul 391
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 394n
Wodehouse, Leonora 127, 129–30n
Wodehouse, P. G. 41, 48, 83, 86, 127, 129–30n, 164, 236, 277, 340, 361, 423
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