[1] Throughout its 64 years the club issued a total of 2,012[2] first editions of crime novels and reached a high standard of quality throughout.

[citation needed] Customers registered their name and address with the club and were sent a newsletter every three months which advised them of the latest books which had been or were to be issued.

From 1939, the Crime Club also issued all the remaining works of Ngaio Marsh to be published, starting with Overture to Death.

They also published many of the works of Golden Age of Detective Fiction writers, such as John Rhode and Freeman Wills Crofts.

The Crime Club managed to keep up with the times with far more diverse and gritty novels and was able to claim notable 'firsts' throughout the remainder of its existence, publishing the first editions of all of the early Lovejoy novels by Jonathan Gash from 1977 onwards starting with The Judas Pair and the Dalziel and Pascoe books of Reginald Hill starting in 1970 with A Clubbable Woman.