The Golden Age of Murder

by Martin Edwards

‘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

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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