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David Timson
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.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
"The plotting is ingenious, the pace sustained, the solution satisfying." (The New York Times Book Review)
"Amazingly, the story steers along very well despite so many different hands at the tiller. Christie's solution is typically ingenious." (Mark Campbell, The Pocket Essential Agatha Christie)
"These members of the Detection Club collaborate with skill in a piece of detection rather more tight-knit than one had a right to expect. There is enough to amuse and to stimulate detection; and the Introduction by Dorothy Sayers and supplements by critics and solvers give an insight into the writers' thoughts and modes of work." (Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime)
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Excruciatingly tiresome!
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great concept. great puzzle mystery
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strangely hilarious, yet captivating
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Fun & intriguing
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Delightful
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Fascinating progressive fiction
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Boring,Boring
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did not enjoy
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Attempt only if you need something to put you to sleep.
The whole is less than the sum of the parts
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Would you try another book from the authors and/or David Timson?
I have and would listen to other books by some of these authors but this book was just a mess.Any additional comments?
The premise (which is explained in the preface) of this book was for several authors of this genre to write a book together in a sort of chain. Where they each add to the story and follow some basic rules and no one knows how it will turn out. .. sounds like a fun idea but the end product left much to be desired.There was almost no character development and very little actual story. Each chapter was written by a different author and it was completely obvious. Instead of a smoothly developing and interesting plot, it felt like each author kept rehashing what the first two or three chapters/authors created and added a very few minor details just so the book wouldn’t end. It ended up dragging and utterly uninteresting to me. I did not finish this book after being at or close to halfway through.
It’s ashame this didn’t work for me as I was excited about all these fabulous authors collaborating. But as a friend of mine likes to say “a jackass is a horse designed by a committee.” This book felt like that.
Surprisingly Awful
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