Tito autoři, členové nově založeného Klubu detektivů, se v roce 1931 podíleli na tvorbě románu, kde každý napsal jednu kapitolu a jiní prolog a epilog. Jejich společným cílem bylo vytvořit originální detektivní zápletku, která by prozkoumala hranice žánru. Tato spolupráce odráží snahu o kolektivní inovaci a mistrovství v umění záhady. Díla autorů jako G.K. Chesterton a Agatha Christie jsou dodnes považována za klasiku detektivního žánru.
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.