County crime writer joins elite club
Thursday 1st April 2010, 7:00PM BST.
Author Kate Charles
A Ludlow crime writer has been elected on to an elite club of crime novelists which boasts GK Chesterton, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers as former presidents.
Kate Charles, who emigrated to the UK from America in 1986, and has lived in Ludlow for more than three years, received a letter from current president of the Detection Club,
Simon Brett, informing her she had been elected as a member. According to book listings on Amazon, current members include Colin Dexter, who is the creator of Inspector Morse, Reginald Hill, the writer behind Dalziel and Pascoe, and Baroness P D James.
Mrs Charles said: “It’s the premier professional club for the top crime writers in the UK. There are a limited number of members.
“I’m so excited, it’s the kind of thing I’ve dreamed about since I was a kid.
“I think there are about 70 members in the UK. I’m really, really chuffed about it.”
Mrs Charles said she had been doing some research and it appeared new members could only join to replace previous members who had died.
Mrs Charles has been a former chairman of the Crime Writers Association and has organised the Crime Fest at Ludlow Castle for the past two years.
When the club was set up, it apparently had a set of fair play rules which said authors should give their readers a fair chance at working out the solution to the plots.
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it should be remembered that baroness p d james was educated at ludlow senodary modern school. well done ludlow
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