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The Detection Club - Volume 1

by Jean Harambat
series The Detection Club #1
In 1930s England, the best mystery writers of the era come together to form the Detection Club. G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr and others gather to eat, drink, and challenge one another. They are in for a bigger test, however, when eccentric billionaire Roderick Ghyll invites them all to his mansion on a private island off the coast of Cornwall, promising to enchant them with ... Read more

€ 4,99
The Floating Admiral

by Agatha Christie and 5 more

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, ... Read more

€ 8,16
Ask a Policeman

by The Detection Club and 5 more

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 ... Read more

€ 8,82
The Detection Collection

by The Detection Club and 5 more

Ten years since it was first published in hardback, and now for the first time as an eBook, this volume of short stories by the cream of British crime writing talent celebrates 75 years of the quintessential Detection Club.The Detection Club represents the cream of British crime writing talent. Founded on the cusp of the 1930s, the Club’s first President was G.K. Chesterton, and since then the ... Read more

€ 8,93
Six Against the Yard

by The Detection Club and 5 more

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 ... Read more

€ 8,93
The Anatomy of Murder

by The Detection Club and 5 more

A unique anthology for crime aficionados – seven of the world’s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier’s mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand… Seven of the world’s greatest crime ... Read more

€ 8,93
The Sinking Admiral

by The Detection Club and 1 more

The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club’s collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral.‘The Admiral’ is a pub in the Suffolk seaside village of Crabwell, The Admiral Byng. ‘The Admiral’ is also the nickname of its landlord, Geoffrey ... Read more

€ 9,04
Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club

by Martin Edwards

Nominated for the 2021 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical book.Ninety crime writers from the world’s oldest and most famous crime writing network give tips and insights into successful crime and thriller fiction.Howdunit offers a fresh perspective on the craft of crime writing from leading exponents of the genre, past and present. The book offers invaluable advice to people ... Read more

€ 18,08
The Detection Club - Volume 2

by Jean Harambat
series The Detection Club #2
In 1930s England, the best mystery writers of the era come together to form the Detection Club. G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr and others gather to eat, drink, and challenge one another. They are in for a bigger test, however, when eccentric billionaire Roderick Ghyll invites them all to his mansion on a private island off the coast of Cornwall, promising to enchant them with ... Read more

€ 4,99
Perguntem ao Polícia

by The Detection Club

Lord Comstock, o tiranico magnata da imprensa, e assassinado na sua casa de campo, o que deixa o ministro do Interior britanico perante um enorme dilema. N?o era segredo nenhum que Comstock tinha uma longa lista de inimigos. Para complicar ainda mais as coisas, recebeu, poucas horas antes de morrer, a visita de um arcebispo, de um politico, e de uma figura proeminente da Scotland Yard. Uma vez que ... Read more

€ 10,99
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Ask a Policeman

by The Detection Club and 5 more

Narrated by David Timson

Unabridged

10 hours 9 min

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 ... Read more

€ 16,99
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The Floating Admiral

by The Detection Club and 3 more

Narrated by David Timson

Unabridged

10 hours 21 min

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, ... Read more

€ 16,99