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The Floating Admiral: A Mystery by the Detection Club
The Floating Admiral A Mystery by the Detection Club Author:Agatha Christie, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane, Anthony Berkeley, G. D. H. Cole, M. Cole, G. K. Chesterton, Canon Victor L. Whitechurch, Henry Wade, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts A rowboat with a corpse. An admiral of the royal navy, retired, permanently. A list of suspects that includes a vicar, a retired civil servant, an heiress and her fiancee, a long lost nephew, a French maid, and an old sailor. Clues abound, evidence that is missing, an inspector trying to make sense of it all. — A collaborative effort of some of t... more »he best known mystery writers of all times brings to you a delightfully complex, thoroughly British "who done it." The Detection Club was formed in the 1930's by a veritable who's who of mystery writers. The membership included clergymen, nobility, essayists, philosophers, Oxford educated translators of the classics, ex-railway engineers and retired military officers. In addition to the occasional dinner, they collaborated on a number of joint projects, radio scripts, plays, and several novels, of which The Floating Admiral is one. Authors of The Detection Club include: G. K. Chesterton, Canon Victor L. Whitechurch, G. D. H. and M. Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald A. Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane, Anthony Berkeley« less