Ces auteurs, membres du Detection Club nouvellement formé, ont collaboré à un roman en 1931, chacun contribuant un chapitre et d'autres le prologue et l'épilogue. Leur effort collectif visait à créer un mystère complexe, repoussant les limites du genre. Cette création partagée souligne un engagement envers la narration innovante et l'art du suspense. Les œuvres de figures telles que G.K. Chesterton et Agatha Christie demeurent des piliers de la littérature policière.
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.