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Ask a Policeman by The Detection Club, Agatha Christie, Martin Edwards, Cecil John Charles Street, Helen Simpson, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Milward Kennedy, Helen de Guerry Simpson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ask a Policeman about?

With “a touch of genius,” this round-robin mystery follow-up to The Floating Admiral features famous detectives including Lord Peter Wimsey ( The Times Literary Supplement ). Following the success of The Floating Admiral , in which certain members of the Detection Club—including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton—collaborated on a whodunit, six writers pooled their talents to create another coauthored mystery. This time the premise had an added twist: authors would swap their detective characters, allowing for some extremely entertaining parodies of one another’s sleuths. When a ruthless British newspaper tycoon is shot dead in his home, the high-level suspects include the assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard, casting doubt on the impartiality of a formal police investigation. As a solution, the home secretary brings in four brilliant detectives to solve the murder: Mrs. Bradley, Sir John Saumarez, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Roger Sheringham. Featuring a preface by inaugural Detection Club member Agatha Christie, this playful tour de force gathers together half a dozen Golden Age Mystery masters: John Rhode, Helen Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley,

Who reads Ask a Policeman?

Author

The Detection Club, Agatha Christie, Martin Edwards, Cecil John Charles Street, Helen Simpson, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Milward Kennedy, Helen de Guerry Simpson

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. : MysteriousPress.com/Open Road

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781504058285

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, True Crime, Crime

Rating

3.25 / 5 (105 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13