Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
ASK A POLICEMAN
by DETECTION CLUB
The Detection Club, whose illustrious founders included the likes of Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Gladys Mitchell , burst into print with their opening salvo,The Floating Admiral, in 1931. In an equally splendid follow-up, published two years later, they did it again; and it is a pleasure to welcome the pair of them back three-quarters of a century later.
Period pieces both, each remains timeless. In this one, Ask a Detective, a ruthless newspaper magnate, Lord Comstock, is discovered murdered in the study of his country house. With four detectives assigned to the case (one per author, not least Lord Peter Wimsey of that ilk), none of them able to ask a policeman, the result is a mystery cocktail as delicious as it is classy.
As Dorothy Sayers remarked at the time, "The Detection Club is a private association of writers of detective fiction in Great Britain, existing chiefly for the purpose of eating dinners together at suitable intervals and of talking illimitable shop...Election is secured by a vote of the club on the recommendation of two or more members, and involves the taking of an oath."
The results of that oath are manifest. Light bedtime fare, and great fun from start to finish.
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ASK A POLICEMAN
by DETECTION CLUB
The Detection Club, whose illustrious founders included the likes of Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Gladys Mitchell , burst into print with their opening salvo,The Floating Admiral, in 1931. In an equally splendid follow-up, published two years later, they did it again; and it is a pleasure to welcome the pair of them back three-quarters of a century later.
Period pieces both, each remains timeless. In this one, Ask a Detective, a ruthless newspaper magnate, Lord Comstock, is discovered murdered in the study of his country house. With four detectives assigned to the case (one per author, not least Lord Peter Wimsey of that ilk), none of them able to ask a policeman, the result is a mystery cocktail as delicious as it is classy.
As Dorothy Sayers remarked at the time, "The Detection Club is a private association of writers of detective fiction in Great Britain, existing chiefly for the purpose of eating dinners together at suitable intervals and of talking illimitable shop...Election is secured by a vote of the club on the recommendation of two or more members, and involves the taking of an oath."
The results of that oath are manifest. Light bedtime fare, and great fun from start to finish.
FOR MORE VIDEO BOOK REVIEWS PLEASE VISIT nicholashoare.com/video-reviews.php
