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unusual facts about Ronald Knox


If It Had Happened Otherwise

"If the General Strike Had Succeeded" by Ronald Knox: This essay is in the form of an article from The Times of 1931, which discloses the outcome as Great Britain under communist rule.


Barsetshire Pilgrimage

Novel by Father Ronald Knox, published in London by Sheed & Ward in 1935, in which Knox picks up the narrative of the original Barsetshire Novels where Anthony Trollope breaks off.

Detection Club

The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, 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.

The Floating Admiral

The twelve chapters of the story were each written by a different author, in the following sequence: Canon Victor Whitechurch, G. D. H. Cole and Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley.


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