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Golden Age mystery writers each composed a chapter of this book, They were all required to build on the previous chapters so as to produce a coherent detective story, and each of them submitted the “solution” they themselves believed to be correct.


Writing this book must have been a fun exercise in puzzlemaking, Its also fairly interesting to read, in part because it allows one to see the bare bones mysterymakingprocess a little more clearly than in singleauthor books.
However, its also more of an intellectual exercise than a novel with human interest, The reader is not expected to care deeply about any of the characters,

I did have to laugh at Agatha Christies chapter because it stuck out so much, In contrast to the other writers, Christie makes the detective suddenly abandon clues and technical details and ask who the biggest local gossip is.
He immediately seeks that lady out and then pretty much lets her talk for the whole chapter, Rather typical of Christies style! As soon as the next author takes over, the detective goes right back to gathering concrete evidence,

I'd rate thisorfor what it is but as a mystery novel it's closer toor so, Apie The Detection Club“ jau rašiau žr, apžvalgą Six Against the Yard“, Šįsyk dar vienas jų literatūrinis žaidimas, Taisyklės kitos vienas po kito autoriai rašo po vieną skyrių, Žinodami tik tai, kas parašyta iki jų, Sukdami tyrimą tenlink, kur jiems atrodo teisinga, O parašę savo skyrių, dar parašo, kaip, jų nuomone, viskas vystysis toliau, ir tą prognozę atiduoda užklijuotame voke, kuris bus atplėštas tik po to, kai paskutinė, finalinė dalis bus parašyta.

Aišku, kai tiek autorių, kai nė vienas nežino prieš tai rašiusio užmanymo, tyrimas sukinėjasi kaip vėtrungės rodyklė, apauga vis naujomis aplinkybėmis, tampa vis labiau ir labiau užnarpliotas.
Ir didžiulė pagarba Anthony Berkeley, kuriam teko paskutinis skyrius, Ir krenkšdamas, stenėdamas, bet jis vis dėlto sugebėjo surišti visas gijas į vieną logišką sprendimą, Juolab, kad kaip savo sprendimo voke“ rašė priešpaskutinio skyriaus autorė Clemence Dane: Atvirai kalbant, aš visiškai susipainiojau tame, kas vyksta, tad tiesiog pasistengiau parašyti skyrių, kurį kiekvienas galės panaudoti, norėdamas įrodyti, ką tik nori“.

Pasakojimas netikėtai gavosi visai įdomus,

Kai jau viskas buvo parašyta, G, K. Chestertonas dar prirašė prologą, taip kiek sustiprindamas bendrąją tiksliau, tapusią tokia, tyrimo liniją, O pabaigoje sudėti tai, kas buvo bene įdomiausia sprendimo vokai“, O, kokios įvairovės ten besama! Pradedu galvoti, kad bene įdomiausias literatūrinis žaidimas būtų toks duoti užuomazgą, nužudymą, jo aplinkybes, o tada kiekvienas toliau rašytų pabaigą.
Ir gautume tiek detektyvų, kiek yra autorių, Vienoda pradžia, bet užtat su kiek skirtingų sprendimų, :
Kaip literatūrinis kūrinys gal trejetui, Kaip už žaidimą ypač už sprendimo vokus“, negaila ir penkių, Tai tebūnie bendrai keturi iš penkių,
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, . .

InAgatha Christie, Dorothy L, Sayers, andother 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, all of the authors provided their own solutions in sealed envelopes, 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,

,The Detection Club PHarperCollins Publishers An ingenious idea for a story with some chapters more unusual than others depending on the authors.
I liked how most authors offered their own solutions at the end and am especially fond of Agatha Christie's suggested solution although I am biased, which shows she had class and imagination.


It was great to see how each author dealt with the difficulties and intricacies paid down by the previous author, I do wonder if any of the authors deliberately created impossible situations to challenge their peers,

The character development was interesting, for example Inspector Rudge was forward thinking and intelligent in some chapters but in others, he was portrayed as a dumb policeman who could not see the wood for the trees.


I actully learned quite a bit about boats from this story which is a sign of a quality book when it interests you enough to do external research.

I thought sitelinkThe Detection Club was the best thing ever when I first heard of ita club of Golden Age mystery authors that included Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers with GK Chesterton himself as the president but I had never heard of The Floating Admiral, which was a simply terrific idea: a detective novel written roundrobin style by the entire Club, each member in turn being required to provide the next chapter of the story along with a sealed solution explaining the solution to the whole mystery.
As an entertainment for the Club itself, it must have been pretty terrific, As a curiosity of detective fiction for the GoldenAge detective fan, it's also a great read,

The plot is pretty similar to every other detective story, with the exception that the last chapter goes on and on and on as the last poor author attempts to tie up all the loose ends.
The subtle shifts in tone, characterisation, and so on, are all fun to watch as each new author steps in to continue the story.
GK Chesterton himself contributed a Prologue to introduce the whole story, which is as brilliant and dreamlike as everything GKC wrote, Of the major contributors, Dorothy Sayers stood out as the best author, Ronald Knox, writer of the famousCommandments of Detective Fiction, is an author I wasn't familiar with, whose chapter also seemed one of the better contributions.
This book has whetted my interest, and I think I'll be looking up some more of his work in the future,

The solution of the mystery provided in the final chapter was pretty ingenious, though extremely complicated as necessary considering the crazy clues.
It was followed by the solutions which the authors were each required to provide, and I'm sorry now that I didn't read each author's solution immediately after his or her respective chapter, since they might have been more meaningful that way.


All in all, this was a fun read which introduced me to some new authors and stands for the future as a delightful record of one of the great literary clubs of the twentieth century.
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