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(3.27) | 24 | 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. Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt. Inspector Rudge begins to wonder just how many people have contributed to this extraordinary crime and whether he will ever unravel it... 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.… (more) |
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(Introduction by Dorothy L. Sayers)
When members of the official police force are invited to express an opinion about the great detectives of fiction, they usually say with a kindly smile: "Well, of course, it's not the same for them as it is for us. (Prologue by G. K. Chesterton)
Three glimpses through the rolling smoke of opium, three stories that still hover about a squalid opium joint in Hong Kong, might very well at this distance of time be dismissed as pipe dreams. Everyone in Lingham knew old Neddy Ware, though he was not a native of the village, having only resided there for the last ten years; which, in the eyes of the older inhabitants who had spent the whole of their lives in that quiet spot, constituted him still a "stranger." | |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions 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. Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt. Inspector Rudge begins to wonder just how many people have contributed to this extraordinary crime and whether he will ever unravel it... 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. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Ein Angler entdeckt ein treibendes Boot mit dem toten Admiral Penistone: er wurde ermordet. Aber warum, von wem und wie? Das fragt sich vor allem Inspektor Rudge. - Verschiedene Autoren schreiben den Krimi weiter fort, müssen dazu alle Hinweise der Vorgänger aufnehmen und geben jeder auch ein eigenes Ende. Weitere Autoren sind: Canon Victor L. Whitechurch, G.D.H. und M. Cole, Henry Wade, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Ronald A. Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane und Anthony Berkeley --------------------------------------- OP een avond in het hoofdkwartier bijeen besloten de leden van de illustere club van Engelse detectiveschrijvers hun gezamenlijke krachten op één detectiveroman te beproeven. Ieder van de leden zou een hoofdstuk voor zijn of haar rekening nemen zonder te weten welke plot de auteur van de voorgaande episode in gedachten had. Dit boek is het resultaat van hun gezamenlijk werk. -------------------------------- AGATHA CHRISTIE, DOROTHY L SAYERS, G K CHESTERTON - ALL WRITING THE SAME MYSTERY!It was a typical foggy day when the members of the world-famous Detection Club gathered at the club's London headquarters. Each contributor tackled the mystery presented without knowing what solution the previous authors had in mind. For the first time in history, the creators of Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Father Brown all applied their expertise to the same case. The result - the unique classic that you are about to read! -------------------------------------- "Is that your hat?" "Yes, Inspector, certainly it is. But will you tell me why you ask me this - and what you have all come about?" "I will, sir. This hat was found in your boat early this morning. Your boat was drifting with the tide up-stream. And in her was the dead body of your opposite neighbour, Admiral Penistone - murdered, Mr. Mount."-------------------------------------- The Floating Admiral is a collaborative detective novel written by fourteen members of the Detection Club in 1931. The twelve chapters of the story were each written by a different author, in the following sequence: 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. G. K. Chesterton contributed a Prologue, which was written after the novel had been completed. 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. As Sayers explained in the introduction to the book, "Each writer must construct his instalment with a definite solution in view—that is, he must not introduce new complications merely 'to make it more difficult' ... [E]ach writer was bound to deal faithfully with all the difficulties left for his consideration by his predecessors." (from Wikipedia) -------------------------------------- CONTENTS: Introduction by Dorothy L. Sayers Prologue: "The Three Pipe Dreams" by G. K. Chesterton Chapter I.: Corpse Ahoy! by Canon Victor L. Whitechurch Chaper II: Breaking the News by G. D. H. and M. Cole Chapter III: Bright Thoughts on Tides by Henry Wade Chapter IV: Mainly Conversation by Agatha Christie Chapter V.: Inspector Rudge Begins to Form a Theory by John Rhode Chapter VI.: Inspector Rudge Thinks Better of It by Milward Kennedy Chapter VII.: Shocks for the Inspector by Dorothy L. Sayres Chapter VIII.:Thirty-Nine Articles of Doubt by Ronald A. Knox Chapter IX.: The Visitor in the Night by Freeman Wills Crofts Chapter X.: The Bathroom Basin by Edgar Jepson Chapter XI.: At the Vicarage by Clemence Dane Chapter XII Clearing up the Mess by Anthony Berkeley Appendix I.: Solutions Appendix II Notes on Mooring of Boat Counsel's Opinion on Fitzgerald's Will | |
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