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Ask a Policeman by The Detection Club, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell, Agatha Christie, Helen Simpson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author 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 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 houseposes 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... This classic whodunit 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

Who reads Ask a Policeman?

Author

The Detection Club, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell, Agatha Christie, Helen Simpson

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Published

1933

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007468652

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

3.25 / 5 (105 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14