The Scoop and Behind The Screen
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The Scoop & Behind The Screen, published together in this volume in 1983, are both collaborative detective novels written by members of the Detection Club. They were originally broadcast serials in The Listener.
The contributors to Behind The Screen, which was broadcast originally in 1930, were Hugh Walpole, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, E.C. Bentley and Ronald Knox.
The contributors to The Scoop, which was broadcast originally in 1931, were Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, E.C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts and Clemence Dane.
Julian Symons, then President of the club [1983], explains in his introduction: "...The present volume... was written to provide funds so that club premises might be acquired. Other books with the same purpose, also the product of several hands, were The Floating Admiral (1931), ... Ask A Policeman (1933), ... and ... Verdict of Thirteen. ..."
