Ask a Policeman
β Scribed by The Detection Club
- Publisher
- MysteriousPress.com/Open Road;Open Road Integrated Media
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 275 KB
- Edition
- US
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1504058283
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β¦ Synopsis
With "a touch of genius," this round-robin mystery follow-up to The Floating Admiral features famous detectives including Lord Peter Wimsey (*TheTimes Literary Supplement*).**
Following the success of The Floating Admiral, in which certain members of the Detection Clubβincluding Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chestertonβcollaborated on a whodunit, six writers pooled their talents to create another coauthored mystery. This time the premise had an added twist: authors would swap their detective characters, allowing for some extremely entertaining parodies of one another's sleuths.
When a ruthless British newspaper tycoon is shot dead in his home, the high-level suspects include the assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard, casting doubt on the impartiality of a formal police investigation. As a solution, the home secretary brings in four brilliant detectives to solve the murder: Mrs. Bradley, Sir John...
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