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The Floating Admiral (Paperback): The Detection Club, Agatha Christie

The Floating Admiral (Paperback)

The Detection Club, Agatha Christie; Preface by Simon Brett; Introduction by Dorothy L Sayers; Prologue by G. K. Chesterton; Epilogue by Anthony Berkeley

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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. Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt. Inspector Rudge begins to wonder just how many people have contributed to this extraordinary crime and whether he will ever unravel it... In 1931, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and ten other crime writers from the newly-formed 'Detection Club' collaborated in publishing a unique crime novel. In a literary game of consequences, each author would write one chapter, leaving G.K. Chesterton to write a typically paradoxical prologue and Anthony Berkeley to tie up all the loose ends. In addition, each of the authors provided their own solution in a sealed envelope, all of which appeared at the end of the book, with Agatha Christie's ingenious conclusion acknowledged at the time to be 'enough to make the book worth buying on its own'. The authors of this novel are: G. K. Chesterton, 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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Imprint: Collins Crime Club
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2017
Authors: The Detection Club • Agatha Christie
Preface by: Simon Brett
Introduction by: Dorothy L Sayers
Prologue by: G. K. Chesterton
Epilogue by: Anthony Berkeley
Dimensions: 197 x 125 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-821068-7
Categories: Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
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LSN: 0-00-821068-3
Barcode: 9780008210687

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