Floating Admiral

Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other
writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this
fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80
years ago.Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder
in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor
lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to
the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up
against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found
in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has
disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye
- even the identity of the victim is called into doubt. Inspector
Rudge begins to wonder just how many people have contributed to
this extraordinary crime and whether he will ever unravel it...In
1931, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and ten other crime
writers from the newly-formed `Detection Club' collaborated in
publishing a unique crime novel. In a literary game of
consequences, each author would write one chapter, leaving G.K.
Chesterton to write a typically paradoxical prologue and Anthony
Berkeley to tie up all the loose ends. In addition, each of the
authors provided their own solution in a sealed envelope, all of
which appeared at the end of the book, with Agatha Christie's
ingenious conclusion acknowledged at the time to be `enough to make
the book worth buying on its own'.The authors of this novel are: G.
K. Chesterton, Canon Victor Whitechurch, G. D. H. Cole and Margaret
Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy,
Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson,
Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley.