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.
News tycoon Lord Comstock is greedy, ruthless, scandal-mongering, and dead by Archbishop, MP, Scotland Yard Commissioner, or mysterious lady. 1 Death at Hursley Lodge by John Rhode 2 Mrs. Bradley’s Dilemma by Helen de Guerry Simpson 3 Sir John Takes his Cue by Gladys Mitchell 4 Lord Peter’s Privy Counsel by Anthony Berkeley 5 The Conclusions of Mr. Roger Sheringham by Dorothy L. Sayers 6 "If you want to know" by Milward Kennedy
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.
Inspector Rudge rarely deals with murder in the quiet seaside town of Whynmouth, but everything changes when an old sailor arrives with a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse, stabbed in the chest. The investigation quickly reveals obstacles, including a vicar who seems to be hiding information and the mysterious disappearance of the victim's niece. The case grows more complex as the victim's identity comes into question, leading Rudge to ponder the number of people involved in this extraordinary crime and whether he will ever solve it. In 1931, a group of crime writers from the newly formed Detection Club, including Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, collaborated on a unique crime novel. Each author contributed a chapter in a literary game of consequences, with G.K. Chesterton writing a paradoxical prologue and Anthony Berkeley providing the conclusion. All authors submitted their own solutions in sealed envelopes, which were included at the end of the book, with Christie's clever resolution noted as particularly noteworthy. The contributing authors include G.K. Chesterton, Canon Victor Whitechurch, G.D.H. Cole, 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.