These authors, members of the newly formed Detection Club, collaborated on a novel in 1931, with each contributing a chapter and others the prologue and epilogue. Their collective endeavor aimed to craft an intricate mystery, pushing the boundaries of the genre. This shared creation highlights a commitment to innovative storytelling and the art of suspense. Works by figures such as G.K. Chesterton and Agatha Christie remain cornerstones of mystery literature.
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.