Six Against the Yard

Author(s): The Detection Club

Crime & Thrillers

A unique anthology for crime aficionados - six 'perfect murder' stories written by the most accomplished crime writers of the 1930s, designed to fox real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Cornish, who comments on whether or not these crimes could have genuinely been solved. Is the 'perfect murder' possible? Can that crime be committed with such consummate care, with such exacting skill, that it is unsolvable - even to the most astute investigator? In this unique collection, legendary crime writers Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers and Russell Thorndike each attempt to create the unsolvable murder, which Superintendent Cornish of the CID then attempts to unravel...This clever literary battle of wits from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral and Ask a Policeman back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the experts from the Golden Age of detective fiction at their most ingenious.

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'I can unreservedly commend this ingenious piece of collaboration.' Punch Reviews for previous Detection Club re-issues: 'A must for all connoisseurs of detective fiction.' Literary Review 'This year's most welcome reissue.' Sunday Telegraph 'A book of irresistible charm for students of the detective story.' Times Literary Supplement

General Fields

  • : 9780007513895
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
  • : 0.272
  • : 13 August 2014
  • : 178mm X 111mm
  • : 01 September 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : The Detection Club
  • : Paperback
  • : 914
  • : 304