Six Against the Yard
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.
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...
This clever literary battle of wits from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral and Ask a Policeman back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the experts from the Golden Age of detective fiction at their most ingenious.
304 pages, 4 editions
English edition · First published 2013 by Collins Crime Club · ISBN 9780008283186
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English
- Six Against the Yard · Collins Crime Club · 2019 · ISBN 9780008283186 This page
- Six Against the Yard: In Which Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Father Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers, Russell Thorndike, Commit the Crime of Murder Which ex-Superintendent Cornish, C.I.D. Is Called Upon to Solve · Harper · 2014 · ISBN 9780007513895
- Six Against the Yard: [in Which Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Father Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers, Russell Thorndike, Commit the Crime of Murder Which Ex-Superintendent Cornish, C.I.D. Is Called to Solve] · HarperCollins · 2013 · ISBN 9780007513901
- Six Against the Yard: In Which Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Father Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers, Russell Thorndike, Commit the Crime of Murder Which Ex-Superintendent Cornish, C.I.D. Is Called to Solve · HarperCollinsPublishers · 2013 · ISBN 9780007513918
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