Search the Community

Hi - I haven't been here for a while, but wanted to show off a new pen. I'm not an affiliate for this pen - instead I am the Hon. Secretary of the Detection Club, and have worked with Conway Stewart to create this pen, which is based on the weight and size of the Wordsworth, now sadly discontinued. It was one of my very favourite pens! This is the Detection Club pen from Conway Stewart in honour of the Detection Club. It is a glorious black with mostly gold trim. On the cap there is a red spacer - supposed to symbolise blood, because this pen celebrates the almost 100 years since the foundation of the Detection Club. The first members, from GK Chesterton, Dorothy L Sayers, Agatha Christie all the way down to AA Milne (yes, he was a crime writer too), are all listed on the barrel itself, which has been laser-engraved with all the names (including Eric the Skull, one of the most important and longest-standing members!). The cap itself has a standard CS clip which works well, bringing to mind the pens of the 1930s. On the very top of the cap is a rendition of Eric the Skull with the name of the Detection Club. At the back of the cap there is a list of the Presidents of the Detection Club from the first to the present day. I am personally a long-standing user of Conway Stewarts. The first pen I bought was one of the original limited edition Churchill pens, which I still adore. I moved on, some years later, to buy a solid silver Drake, which I adore, and later still worked with the company to design a special version of the Winston. However, I find more and more that I need a smaller pen, something which can easily be held in a shirt pocket. I have an Indiana Jones model, which is excellent for that, but I have to admit, this Detection Club pen is slightly larger, considerably heavier, and makes for a much more satisfying writing tool. The weight, balance and diameter are superb for my hand. The fact that it sits in my shirt pocket is a great advantage, too. The pen uses the larger size Conway Stewart nibs, which are soft, and give a good line variation. I have been using the prototype model for some six weeks now, and it's going to be painful to send it back to the Detection Club to be stored in the archives! If you are interested in the pen, please contact Conway Stewart. It's a limited edition and will go on sale very soon. A video of the pen can be seen below, and a week later, on 24th October, I made a second video comparing the Detection Club pen with the Winston and the Indiana Jones. In my opinion, this pen would be my second favourite pen just behind the Drake, which I find utterly beautiful and perfect to write with. I'm just saving up (mostly excuses) to justify the expense of a new one! So, if you enjoy crime and mystery writing, and would like a pen to celebrate the authors of the golden age of crime writing, this could be a good pen for you. I hope you enjoy the videos.