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Six Against the Yard (Paperback)
The Detection Club, Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, …
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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. Is the 'perfect murder' possible? Can that
crime be committed with such consummate care, with such exacting
skill, that it is unsolvable - even to the most astute
investigator? In this unique collection, legendary crime writers
Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Ronald
Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers and Russell Thorndike each attempt to
create the unsolvable murder, which Superintendent Cornish of the
CID then attempts to unravel... This clever literary battle of wits
from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating
Admiral and Ask a Policeman back into print after more than 75
years, and shows some of the experts from the Golden Age of
detective fiction at their most ingenious.
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The Detection Collection (Paperback)
The Detection Club, Colin Dexter, Robert Goddard, Reginald Hill, P.D. James; Edited by …
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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. The Detection Club represents
the cream of British crime writing talent. Founded on the cusp of
the 1930s, the Club's first President was G.K. Chesterton, and
since then the mantle of Presidency has passed to some of the most
significant names inthe history of crime fiction, including Agatha
Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Julian Symons. The Club meets three
times a year - to dine, to plot, and to exchange ideas. This
anthology includes eleven new stories by the Best of British:
Robert Barnard, Lyndsey Davis, Colin Dexter, Clare Francis, Robert
Goddard, John Harvey, Reginald Hill, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating,
Michael Ridpath and Margaret Yorke, and has been edited by the
Club's President, Simon Brett. Among the authors are a number of
bestsellers, as well as winners of both Diamond and Gold Daggers.
This outstanding collection is a must for crime lovers everywhere.
P.D. James * The Part-Time Job Michael Ridpath * Partnership Track
H.R.F. Keating * A Toothbrush John Harvey * The Sun, the Moon and
the Stars Lindsey Davis * 'Going Anywhere Nice?' Colin Dexter *
Between the Lines Robert Barnard * The Life-lie Margaret Yorke *
The Woman from Marlow Robert Goddard * Toupee for a Bald Tyre Clare
Francis * The Holiday Reginald Hill * Fool of Myself
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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 …
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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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The Anatomy of Murder (Paperback)
The Detection Club, Dorothy L Sayers, Francis Iles, Freeman Wills Crofts, Helen Simpson, …
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A unique anthology for crime aficionados - seven of the world's
most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most
accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A
manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young
wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier's
mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand... Seven
of the world's greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of
the world's most spine-tingling mysteries - all of them
astonishingly TRUE. This remarkable collection from the archives of
the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral, Ask a Policeman
and Six Against the Yard back into print after more than 75 years,
and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation
retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the
tastiest crime fiction.
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Ask a Policeman (Paperback)
The Detection Club, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Gladys Mitchell, …
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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. Lord Comstock is a
barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder
in the study of his country house poses a dilemma for the Home
Secretary. In the hours before his death, Lord Comstock's visitors
included the government Chief Whip, an Archbishop, and the
Assistant Commissioner for Scotland Yard. Suspicion falls upon them
all and threatens the impartiality of any police investigation.
Abandoning protocol, the Home Secretary invites four famous
detectives to solve the case: Mrs Adela Bradley, Sir John Saumarez,
Lord Peter Wimsey, and Mr Roger Sheringham. All are different, all
are plausible, all are on their own - and none of them can ask a
policeman... The contributors to ASK A POLICEMAN are: John Rhode,
Helen Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L.
Sayers, Milward Kennedy, with Agatha Christie and Martin Edwards.
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. 'The
Admiral' is a pub in the Suffolk seaside village of Crabwell, The
Admiral Byng. 'The Admiral' is also the nickname of its landlord,
Geoffrey Horatio Fitzsimmons, as well as the name of the landlord's
dinghy. None of them are as buoyant as they should be, for the pub
is threatened with closure due to falling takings. Tempers are
already frayed due to the arrival of a television documentary team
when Fitzsimmons is found dead in his tethered boat. The villagers
assume a simple case of suicide and fear that their debt-ridden pub
will now sink without trace. The journalists seem determined to
finish the job by raking up old skeletons, but they weren't banking
on the fact that this story has been written by 14 extremely
competitive crime writers - arch bamboozlers who will stop at
nothing to save a good pub. The Sinking Admiral, edited by the
Detection Club's outgoing President - author and broadcaster Simon
Brett, OBE - continues a tradition established by the Detection
Club's founders in 1931 when Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie,
Freeman Wills Crofts and eleven other esteemed authors wrote The
Floating Admiral, a 'collaborative novel' to challenge themselves,
fox their readers and help to pay for the Club's running costs.
Now, 85 years later, 14 of today's leading crime writers have
repeated this unique game of literary consequences, producing an
original, ebullient and archetypal whodunit that will keep readers
guessing right up to what crime lovers insist on calling the
denouement... The contributors to The Sinking Admiral are: SIMON
BRETT KATE CHARLES NATASHA COOPER STELLA DUFFY MARTIN EDWARDS RUTH
DUDLEY EDWARDS TIM HEALD MICHAEL JECKS JANET LAURENCE PETER LOVESEY
MICHAEL RIDPATH DAVID ROBERTS L.C. TYLER LAURA WILSON all members
of The Detection Club.
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The Anatomy of Murder (Paperback)
The Detection Club, Dorothy L Sayers, Francis Iles, Freeman Wills Crofts, Helen Simpson, …
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A unique anthology for crime aficionados - seven of the world's
most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most
accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A
manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young
wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier's
mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand... Seven
of the world's greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of
the world's most spine-tingling mysteries - all of them
astonishingly TRUE. This remarkable collection from the archives of
the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral, Ask a Policeman
and Six Against the Yard back into print after more than 75 years,
and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation
retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the
tastiest crime fiction.
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Ask a Policeman (Paperback)
The Detection Club, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Gladys Mitchell, …
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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. Lord Comstock is a
barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder
in the study of his country house poses a dilemma for the Home
Secretary. In the hours before his death, Lord Comstock's visitors
included the government Chief Whip, an Archbishop, and the
Assistant Commissioner for Scotland Yard. Suspicion falls upon them
all and threatens the impartiality of any police investigation.
Abandoning protocol, the Home Secretary invites four famous
detectives to solve the case: Mrs Adela Bradley, Sir John Saumarez,
Lord Peter Wimsey, and Mr Roger Sheringham. All are different, all
are plausible, all are on their own - and none of them can ask a
policeman... The contributors to ASK A POLICEMAN are: John Rhode,
Helen Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L.
Sayers, Milward Kennedy, with Agatha Christie and Martin Edwards.
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