Detection Medley was published in the UK in 1939; it appeared the following year in the US under the title Line Up. John Rhode edited the book and supplied a foreword, while A.A. Milne, himself a member of the Club, contributed a short introduction. Although most of the contributions – a number of which had been published previously – were short stories, there were also articles by G.K. Chesterton, J.J. Connington, R.Austin Freeman and Milward Kennedy.
Margery Allingham – The Lieabout
Margery Allingham – The Same to Us
H.C. Bailey – Mr Bowley’s Sunday Evening
E.C. Bentley – The Sweet Shot
E.C. Bentley – The Genuine Tabard
Nicholas Blake – A Slice of Bad Luck
J. Dickson Carr – Persons or Things Unknown
G.K. Chesterton – The Best Detective Story
Agatha Christie – Wireless
Agatha Christie – Death By Drowning
G.D.H. and M. Cole – Too Clever By Half
J.J.Connington – A Criminologist’s Bookshelf
Freeman Wills Crofts – The Match
Carter Dickson – The Hiding-Place
Carter Dickson – The Crime in Nobody’s Room
Edgar Jepson and Robert Eustace – All Square
R. Austin Freeman – The Art of the Detective Story
Anthony Gilbert – Horseshoes for Luck
Anthony Gilbert – The Cockroach and the Tortoise
Lord Gorell – The Shadow
Lord Gorell – A Fly in the Ointment
Ianthe Jarrold – Blue Lias
Milward Kennedy – Are Murders Meant?
Milward Kennedy – Murderers in Fiction
E.C.R. Lorac – The Live Wire
Arthur Morrison – A Professional Episode
The Baroness Orczy – A Shot in the Night
The Baroness Orczy – The Tytherton Case
E.R. Punshon – Who Was It?
E.R. Punshon – The Secret of the Chessboard
Dorothy L. Sayers – Striding Folly
Dorothy L. Sayers – The Haunted Policeman
Henry Wade – The Sub-Branch
Henry Wade – Four to One – Bar One
Hugh Walpole – The Perfect Close