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This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author 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 fellow writers in...

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.

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...

Im britischen Detection Club versammelte sich die Crème de la Crème des Krimigenres – neben Agatha Christie und Dorothy L. Sayers etwa auch G. K. Chesterton und Anthony Berkeley Cox. Gemeinsam haben diese vier und neun weitere Autoren 1931 einen Kriminalroman geschrieben, der seinesgleichen sucht: Jedes Kapitel stammt aus einer anderen Feder, und keiner der Autoren wusste beim Schreiben, welche Auflösung die Verfasserin des vorherigen Kapitels im Sinn hatte.