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Cecil John Charles Street, Agatha Christie, Martin Edwards, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell, Milward Kennedy, Anthony Berkeley, Helen Simpson, The Detection The Detection Club, John Rhode, Helen Simpson, Detection Club Staff: Ask a policeman (1933, Morrow)

313 pages

English language

Published Nov. 22, 1933 by Morrow.

OCLC Number:
9502735

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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...

To produce this classic whodunit, the Detection Club adopted a completely new approach: Milward Kennedy proposed the title, John Rhode plotted the murder and provided the suspects, and four of their contemporaries were asked to lend their well-known detectives to …

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