Who could resist sharing a post with this enticing title “How to do a murder… And how not to. Reviews: #A Killer Strikes by @GeorgiaRoseBook #PsychologicalThriller AND #GlassOnion”!!
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? —Oath of the British Detection Club, 1930
Seriously? Jiggery-pokery? Is that even a thing?
In 1930, a group of British mystery writers formed a club and elected G.K. Chesterton as their first president. Members—who included Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Arthur Morrison, John Rhode, Jessie Rickard, Baroness Emma Orczy, R. Austin Freeman, G. D. H. Cole, Margaret Cole, E. C. Bentley, Henry Wade, and H. C. Bailey—took the above oath, which most (if not all) proceeded to violate with some regularity.
The Ten Rules of (Golden Age) Detective Fiction
Codified by Ronald Knox, a…
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Judith Barrow 
Thanks so much for sharing, Judith. I really appreciate the support.
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It’s such a great read, Georgia Rose, I’m happy to share for other readers to see.
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