Great review! If you liked Sayers's chapter, I very much recommend taking a look at her fiction as well.
There actually are a couple more collective efforts by members of the Detection Club:
Round Robins:
* "The Scoop" and "Behind the Screen" (two shorter pieces, usually published together)
* "Ask a Policeman" (premise: Scotland Yard invites the Detection Club members' famouns detectives to assist solving a crime -- with the extra twist that they "exchanged" detectives, i.e., Anthony Berkeley wrote the chapter about Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and she the one about his main man, Roger Sheringham, etc.)
* "The Sinking Admiral" (a "sequel" -- of sorts -- to "The Floating Admiral" by contemporary members of the Detection Club, in honor of its 75th publication anniversary)
Other books with a common theme:
* "Six Against the Yard": Several members of the Detection Club each wrote a short story containing their version of "the perfect crime" -- and a real life (retired) senior Scotland Yard Detective then unpicked it and showed how the police might, in reality, have hunted down the killer
* "Anatomy of Murder" (members of the Detection Club analyze real life crimes)
I read / listened to "The Sinking Admiral" earlier this year -- it's amusing (the "Admiral" here is a failing pub, so it's "sinking" metaphorically, and the pub's owner is nicknamed "the Admiral", too); with one pun consisting in the fact that every major character in the book has the last name of one of the original authors of "The Floating Admiral." By and large it doesn't quite reach the wacky genius of the original work, but I'll happily revisit it, in case you want to buddy read it.
There actually are a couple more collective efforts by members of the Detection Club:
Round Robins:
* "The Scoop" and "Behind the Screen" (two shorter pieces, usually published together)
* "Ask a Policeman" (premise: Scotland Yard invites the Detection Club members' famouns detectives to assist solving a crime -- with the extra twist that they "exchanged" detectives, i.e., Anthony Berkeley wrote the chapter about Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and she the one about his main man, Roger Sheringham, etc.)
* "The Sinking Admiral" (a "sequel" -- of sorts -- to "The Floating Admiral" by contemporary members of the Detection Club, in honor of its 75th publication anniversary)
Other books with a common theme:
* "Six Against the Yard": Several members of the Detection Club each wrote a short story containing their version of "the perfect crime" -- and a real life (retired) senior Scotland Yard Detective then unpicked it and showed how the police might, in reality, have hunted down the killer
* "Anatomy of Murder" (members of the Detection Club analyze real life crimes)
I read / listened to "The Sinking Admiral" earlier this year -- it's amusing (the "Admiral" here is a failing pub, so it's "sinking" metaphorically, and the pub's owner is nicknamed "the Admiral", too); with one pun consisting in the fact that every major character in the book has the last name of one of the original authors of "The Floating Admiral." By and large it doesn't quite reach the wacky genius of the original work, but I'll happily revisit it, in case you want to buddy read it.