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...
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,...
Und wie immer fünf Sterne an den Vorleser. Der dürfte mir wirklich das Berliner Telefonbuch vorlesen... *hachz*
Und wie immer fünf Sterne an den Vorleser. Der dürfte mir wirklich das Berliner Telefonbuch vorlesen... *hachz*
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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