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Description edit
The Floating Admiral is a collaborative detective novel written by fourteen members of the Detection Club in 1931. The twelve chapters of the story were each written by a different author, in the following sequence: Canon Victor Whitechurch, G. D. H. Cole and Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha... read more
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First Sentence edit
Three glimpses through the rolling smoke of opium, three stories about a squalid opium joint in Hong Kong, might very well at this distance of time be dismissed as pipe dreams.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
Prologue - The Three Pipe Dreams
Chapter I - Corpse Ahoy!
Chapter II - Breaking the News
Cahpter III - Bright Thoughts on Tides
Chapter IV - Mainly Conversation
Chapter V - Inspector Rudge Begins to Form a Theory
Chapter VI - Inspector Rudge Thinks Better of It
Chapter VII - Shocks for the Inspector
Chapter VIII - Thirty Nine Articles of Doubt
Chapter IX - The Visitor in the Night
Chapter X - The Bathroom Basin
Chapter XI - At the Vicarage
Chapter XII - Clearing up the Mess
Appendix I - Solutions
Appendix II - Notes on Moorings of Boat; and Counsel's Opinion on Ftzgerald's Will
Authors & Contributors edit
- The Detection Club (Author) - The Detection Club was a group of British mystery writers including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, Arthur Morrison, John Rhode, Jessie Rickard, Baroness Emma Orczy, R. Austin Freeman, G. D. H. Cole, Margaret Cole, E.C. Bentley, H. C. Bailey, Anthony Berkeley, and G. K. Chesterton.
Other Contributors:
- Dorothy L. Sayers (Introduction)
- G. K. Chesterton (Contributor) - Prologue - The Three Pipe Dreams
- Victor L. Whitechurch (Contributor) - Corpse Ahoy!
- G. D. H. Cole (Contributor) - together with Margaret Cole - Breaking the News
- Margaret Cole (Contributor) - Together with GDH Cole - Breaking the News
- Henry Wade (Contributor) - Bright Thoughts on Tides
- Agatha Christie (Contributor) - Mainly Conversation
- John Rhode (Contributor) - Inspector Rudge Begins to Form a Theory
- Milward Kennedy (Contributor) - Inspector Rudge Thinks Better of It
- Dorothy L. Sayers (Contributor) - Shocks for the Inspector
- Father Ronald Knox (Contributor) - Thirty Nine Articles of Doubt
- Freeman Wills Crofts (Contributor) - The Visitor in the Night
- Edgar Jepson (Contributor) - The Bathroom Basin
- Clemence Dane (Contributor) - At the Vicarage
- Anthony Berkeley (Contributor) - Clearing up the Mess
- Simon Brett (Foreword) - for the 2011 edition published by HarperCollins
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1931
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 351
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1931
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 351
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