Members of the Detection Club

1930

G.K. Chesterton
H.C. Bailey
E.C. Bentley
Anthony Berkeley
Agatha Christie
G.D.H. Cole
M. Cole
J.J.Connington
Freeman Wills Crofts
Clemence Dane
Robert Eustace
R.Austin Freeman
Lord Gorell
Edgar Jepson
Ianthe Jerrold
Milward Kennedy
Ronald A. Knox
A.E.W. Mason
A.A. Milne
Arthur Morrison
Baroness Orczy
Mrs. Victor Rickard
John Rhode
Dorothy L. Sayers
Henry Wade
Victor L. Whitechurch
Helen Simpson, Associate Member
Hugh Walpole, Associate Member

1933

Anthony Gilbert
E.R. Punshon
Gladys Mitchell

1934

Margery Allingham

1935

Norman Kendal

1936

John Dickson Carr

1937

Nicholas Blake
Newtin Gale
E.C.R. Lorac
Christopher Bush

1946

Cyril Hare
Christianna Brand
Richard Hull
Alice Campbell

1947

Val Gielgud
Edmund Crispin

1948

Dorothy Bowers

1949

Michael Innes
Michael Gilbert
Douglas G. Browne

1950

Mary Fitt

1951

Julian Symons

1952

Andrew Garve
Eric Ambler

1954

Josephine Bell

1955

Roy Vickers
Glyn Carr

1957

Macdonald Hastings

1958

Edward Candy
G. Belton Cobb
E.H. Clements
J.C. Masterman
John Trench
Clifford Witting
Elizabeth Ferrars
Katherine Farrer

1959

Michael Underwood
Margot Bennett
Dorothy Eden
George Milner

1960

William Mole

1961

Guy Cullingford
John Sherwood

1962

Mary Kelly

1963

John Fleming
Celia Fremlin
Anthony Lejeune

1964

John Blackburn

1965

William Haggard

1966

Dick Francis
H.R.F. Keating

1967

Francis Clifford

1968

John Bingham
Henry Cecil
Gavin Lyall
Miles Tripp

1969

Len Deighton
Peter Dickinson

1970

Colin Watson
Douglas Rutherford

1971

Joan Aiken
Patricia Moyes
Anthony Price

1972

P.D. James
Jean Stubbs

1973

Kenneth Benton
Jean Bowden

1974

Gwendoline Butler
John Le Carre
Peter Lovesey
Ngaio Marsh

1975

Patricia Highsmith
Michael Kenyon
Laurence Meynell
Robert Player

1976

Geoffrey Household
James McClure
Anne Morice
Margaret Yorke

1977

Ruth Rendell

1978

Desmond Bagley
Simon Brett
Celia Dale
Reginald Hill

1979

Lionel Davidson
Martin Russell

1980

Colin Dexter

1981

Catherine Aird

1982

June Thomson

1983

John Wainwright

1985

Jessica Mann
Antonia Fraser

1986

James Melville

1987

Tim Heald
Jonathan Gash

1988

David Williams
George Sims

1989

Susan Moody

1990

Anthea Fraser

1991

Liza Cody
Robert Barnard

1992

Bertie Denham

1993

John Malcolm
Michael Z. Lewin

1994

Lindsey Davis
Frances Fyfield

1995

Andrew Taylor

1996

Ruth Dudley-Edwards

1997

Michael Hartland

1998

Ian Rankin
John Harvey

1999

Ann Granger
Robert Goddard

2000

Janet Neel
Val McDermid
Natasha Cooper

2001

Russell James
Frank Delaney
Janet Laurence

Honorary Presidents of the Club

G.K. Chesterton, 1930-1936
E.C. Bentley, 1936-1949
Dorothy L. Sayers, 1949-1958
Agatha Christie, 1958-1976
(Lord Gorell, co-President with Christie, 1958-1963)
Julian Symons, 1976-1985
H.R.F. Keating, 1985-2000
Simon Brett, 2000-present

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