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Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an English Catholic priest, theologian and author of detective stories. He was also a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio. show more

Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an English Catholic priest, theologian and author of detective stories. He was also a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio.

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Birth date: 1888-02-17

Died: 1957-08-24

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Catholicism, Classics, Crime, Detective, Mystery, Mystery & Thrillers, Non Fiction, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

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The Body in the Silo - Barnaby Edwards, Ronald Knox

The Three Taps - Ronald Knox, Barnaby Edwards

The Floating Admiral - Canon Victor Whitechurch, Agatha Christie, Milward Kennedy, Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Clemence Dane, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.D.H. Cole, G.K. Chesterton

Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes: A Sherlockian Essay - Ronald Knox

The Imitation of Christ - Thomas à Kempis, Ronald Knox, Michael Oakley

St. Margaret Queen of Scotland and Her Chapel - Ronald Knox, Charles Robertson, Ronald Selby Wright, Lucy Menzies

The Belief of Catholics - Ronald Knox, Karl Keating

The Floating Admiral - Helen Simpson, Agatha Christie, The Detection Club, Milward Kennedy, Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Clemence Dane, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Victor L. Whitechurch, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.D.H. Cole, G.K. Chesterton

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Locus Amoenus: All By My Shelf rated it

6 years ago

text Final Thoughts: The Floating Admiral

This is a hard book to review, because its very nature means that it will have certain unavoidable imperfections. By passing the manuscript around to have chapters added instead of collaborating on a complete piece, it's impossible to predict where the plot will go. Of course, that also makes it i...

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BrokenTune rated it

6 years ago

text The Floating Admiral

What an interesting and fun experiment this must have been for the members of the Detection Club to write a mystery - in full compliance with club rules - where one author built on the previous chapters but without having a collective idea about what the plot should be. As much as I loved seeing ...

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Abandoned by user rated it

6 years ago

text More of a curiosity than anything else

This collaborative mystery is not to be taken seriously. While I got quite a kick out of it, it's a good thing that the members of The Detection Club didn't really make a habit of this - there are a total of three of these collaborative mysteries, each with a different spin. At the end of the day,...

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Kim Reads and Bakes rated it

13 years ago

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I really did want to like this book a lot. First published in 1931, the premise of the novel is ingenious. Each chapter was written by a different member of the Detection Club, an association of British crime fiction writers. As Dorothy L Sayers explains in the introduction, the idea was that each w...

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There Might Be Cupcakes and Books rated it

13 years ago

text The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Classic Crime)

The only non-canon book I've enjoyed is Shadows Over Baker Street, edited by the marvelous John Pelan (who is a helluva nice guy, to boot). On the whole, I am put off by authors' attempts to meddle with others' characters.

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