Take a crime as described by one writer, then set four of the best writers of the time to write solutions, but ask them to do it writing as the detective of one of the other writers. Thus you have Dorothy L. Sayers writing the chapter featuring Mr. Sherringham and Anthony Berkeley writing the one for Lord Peter Wimsey. Needless to say, the solutions are all completely different. This book is both fascinating and amusing at the same time. A must for anyone who likes mysteries from the Golden Age of detective fiction. 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.
Take a crime as described by one writer, then set four of the best writers of the time to write solutions, but ask them to do it writing as the detective of one of the other writers. Thus you have Dorothy L. Sayers writing the chapter featuring Mr. Sherringham and Anthony Berkeley writing the one for Lord Peter Wimsey. Needless to say, the solutions are all completely different. This book is both fascinating and amusing at the same time. A must for anyone who likes mysteries from the Golden Age of detective fiction. 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.
