The Man Who Author:H. R. F. Keating (Editor) An anthology of crime stories commissioned by the Detection Club in celebration of Julian Symons's 80th birthday, as a tribute to Symons's contribution to the world of crime fiction. The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers: there was a fanciful initiation ritual with an oath and the club h... more »eld regular dinner meetings in London. The Oath: Do you promise that your detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them using those wits which it may please you to bestow upon them and not placing reliance on nor making use of Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Coincidence, or Act of God?
Contents:
The Man Who Rowed for the Shore / Catherine Aird; --
The One Who Did for Blagden Cole / Eric Ambler; --
The Man Who Got the Dirt / Simon Brett; --
The Man Who Was a Coyote / Len Deighton; --
The Man Who Wiped the Smile off her Face / Antonia Fraser; --
The Man Who Was Reconstituted / Michael Gilbert; --
The Man who Defenestrated His Sister / Reginald Hill; --
The Man Who Was Eighty / P.D. James; --
The Man Who Killed For Pleasure / H.R.F. Keating; --
The Man Who Ate People / Peter Lovesey; --
The Man Who Was the God of Love / Ruth Rendell; --
The Man Whose Holiday Was a Fiasco / George Sims; --