Читайте только на Литрес

The book cannot be downloaded as a file, but can be read in our app or online on the website.

Основной контент книги The Floating Admiral
Text

Volume 332 pages

0+

The Floating Admiral

Читайте только на Литрес

The book cannot be downloaded as a file, but can be read in our app or online on the website.

$9.15

About the book

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.

Log in, to rate the book and leave a review
Агаты Кристи, Гилберта Кита Честертона et al. «The Floating Admiral» — read online on the website. Leave comments and reviews, vote for your favorites.
Age restriction:
0+
Release date on Litres:
30 June 2019
Volume:
332 p. 5 illustrations
ISBN:
9780007414451
Copyright holder:
HarperCollins
Text
Average rating 4 based on 78 ratings
Audio
Average rating 4,2 based on 771 ratings
Text, audio format available
Average rating 4,7 based on 411 ratings
Draft, audio format available
Average rating 4,7 based on 101 ratings
Text, audio format available
Average rating 4,9 based on 171 ratings
Text, audio format available
Average rating 4,4 based on 66 ratings
Audio
Average rating 3,6 based on 5 ratings
Text, audio format available
Average rating 0 based on 0 ratings
Text
Average rating 3,8 based on 4 ratings
Audio
Average rating 5 based on 4 ratings
Audio
Average rating 4,1 based on 7 ratings