Deze auteurs, leden van de nieuw opgerichte Detection Club, werkten in 1931 samen aan een roman, waarbij ieder een hoofdstuk bijdroeg en anderen de proloog en epiloog schreven. Hun gezamenlijke inspanning was gericht op het creëren van een ingewikkeld mysterie, waarbij de grenzen van het genre werden verkend. Deze gedeelde creatie benadrukt een toewijding aan innovatief vertellen en de kunst van spanning. Werken van figuren als G.K. Chesterton en Agatha Christie blijven fundamenten van de mysterie literatuur.
A unique anthology for crime aficionados - six `perfect murder' stories written by the most accomplished crime writers of the 1930s, designed to fox real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Cornish, who comments on whether or not these crimes could have genuinely been solved.
The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club's collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral.
Ten years since it was first published in hardback, and now for the first time in mass market paperback, this volume of short stories by the cream of British crime writing talent celebrates 75 years of the quintessential Detection Club.
This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before- published Preface by Agatha Christie, `Detective Writers in England', in which she discusses her approach to writing and her fellow writers in the Detection Club.
Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago.