Lord Comstock is a tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder poses a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his death, his visitors included the Chief Whip, an Archbishop, and the Assistant Commissioner for Scotland Yard. Abandoning protocol, the Home Secretary invites four famous detectives to solve the case.

Ask a Policeman

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

THE DETECTION CLUB

Mystery

HarperCollins, Publishers

Lord Comstock is a tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder poses a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his death, his visitors included the Chief Whip, an Archbishop, and the Assistant Commissioner for Scotland Yard. Abandoning protocol, the Home Secretary invites four famous detectives to solve the case.

Literature & Fiction

GLADYS MITCHELL

Anthony Berkeley

Dorothy-L-Sayers

Milward Kennedy

John Rhode

Helen de Guerry Simpson

Literary

Harpercollins

Six Against The Yard (Detection Club)

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.

Six Against the Yard (Detection Club)

Short Stories & Anthologies

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

A unique anthology for crime aficionados – seven of the world’s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier’s mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in new zealand… seven of the world’s greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the world’s most spine-tingling mysteries – all of them astonishingly true. This remarkable collection from the archives of the detection club follows the floating admiral, ask a policeman and six against the yard back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the tastiest crime fiction.

The Anatomy of Murder [Hardcover] The Detection Club

Freeman Wills Crofts

Margaret Cole

Francis Iles

E. R. Punshon

Ten years since it was first published in hardback, and now for the first time in mass market paperback, this volume of short stories by the cream of British crime writing talent celebrates 75 years of the quintessential Detection Club.

The Detection Collection

ROBERT GODDARD

Colin, Dexter

P.D.James

REGINALD HILL

SINKING ADMIRAL- PB

HARPER/COLLINS

The Detection Club is the oldest and most exclusive crime writing organization and it has always represented the cream of British crime writing talent. The founding and early members were amongst the most famous and best loved figures in the golden age - Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesteron, Dorothy Sayers, John Dickson Carr (the only American ever to be a member) among others - and membership remains by invitation only. Now to celebrate the impending seventy-fifth anniversary of The Detection Club, its members have produced The Detection Collection - a collection of eleven new stories from the best and the brightest in the British crime field. This original volume includes never-before-published stories from Lindsey Davis, P.D. James, Robert Barnard, Colin Dexter, John Harvey, Reginald Hill, Peter Lovesey, and others, as well as an introduction and history of the Detection Club from the current Club president Simon Brett. This outstanding collection is a true must-have volume for mystery lovers around the world.

Minotaur Books

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. . .\nIn 1931 Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and 10 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, all of the authors provided their own solutions in sealed envelopes, 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.\n1931, 2011 The Detection Club (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers

Floating Admiral

G.K., Chesterton

Agatha, Christie

Henry, Wade

CLEMENCE DANE

G. D. H. Cole

Hamlyn

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