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The Floating Admiral

Detection Club

"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."--

GenresDetective and mystery stories

357 pages, 4 editions

English edition · First published 1980 by Collins Crime Club · ISBN 9780008210687

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Editions

4 editions

English

  • The Floating Admiral · Collins Crime Club · 2017 · ISBN 9780008210687 This page
  • The Floating Admiral · Mysterious Press · 1988 · ISBN 9780099558507
  • The Floating Admiral · Hamlyn Paperbacks · 1983 · ISBN 9780600206569
  • The Floating Admiral · Charter Books · 1980 · ISBN 9780441240968

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