Six Against the Yard

The Detection Club, Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2014
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-751389-5 (ISBN)

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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.

“The Detection Club is a private association of writers of detective fiction in Great Britain, existing chiefly for the purpose of eating dinners together at suitable intervals and of talking illimitable shop … Its membership is confined to those who have written genuine detective stories (not adventure tales or ‘thrillers’) and election is secured by a vote of the club on recommendation by two or more members, and involves the undertaking of an oath.” Dorothy L. Sayers

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.8.2014
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	111 x 178 mm
Gewicht	170 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
ISBN-10	0-00-751389-5 / 0007513895
ISBN-13	978-0-00-751389-5 / 9780007513895
Zustand	Neuware