| Record Number |
818091 |
| ISBN |
9780008283179 (paperback) |
| Author |
Berkeley, Anthony, 1893-1971 author. |
| Title |
Ask a policeman / by Anthony Berkeley, Milward Kennedy, Gladys Mitchell, John Rhode, Dorothy L. Sayers, & Helen Simpson. |
| Edition |
Paperback edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Collins Crime Club, 2019. |
| ©1933 |
| Pagination etc. |
xxi, 311 pages : illustration ; 20 cm |
| Contents note |
"By members of the Detection Club including Dorothy L. Sayers & John Rhode. Preface by Agatha Christie" -- Cover. |
| Summary Note |
This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, Detective Writers in England', in which she discusses her approach to writing and her fellow writers in the Detection Club. Lord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder in the study of his country house poses a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his death, Lord Comstock's visitors included the government Chief Whip, an Archbishop, and the Assistant Commissioner for Scotland Yard. Suspicion falls upon them all and threatens the impartiality of any police investigation. Abandoning protocol, the Home Secretary invites four famous detectives to solve the case: Mrs Adela Bradley, Sir John Saumarez, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Mr Roger Sheringham. All are different, all are plausible, all are on their own and none of them can ask a policeman. |
| Subject |
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction |
| Detective and mystery fiction. |
| Added Author |
Kennedy, Milward, 1894-1968 author. |
| Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 author. |
| Rhode, John, 1884-1964 author. |
| Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957 author. |
| Simpson, Helen, 1897-1940 author. |
| Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 writer of preface. |
| Corporate Author |
Detection Club author. |
| Shelf Location |
F BERK |
