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Ask a Policeman (Record no. 521571)

MARC details
000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 02697pam a2200265a 44500
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780007468645
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number F DET
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Detection Club
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Ask a Policeman
Statement of responsibility, etc Detection Club
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc United Kingdom
Name of publisher, distributor, etc HarperCollins Publishers
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1-Aug-13
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 336
Other physical details Paperback
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code INR
Price amount 299.00
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Classic crime
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, 'Detective Writers in England', in which she discusses her fellow writers in the Detection Club. Lord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder in the study of his country houseposes a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his death, Lord Comstock's visitors included the government Chief Whip, an Archbishop, and the Assistant Commissioner for Scotland Yard. Suspicion falls upon them all and threatens the impartiality of any police investigation. Abandoning protocol, the Home Secretary invites four famous detectives to solve the case: Mrs Adela Bradley, Sir John Saumarez, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Mr Roger Sheringham. All are different, all are plausible, all are on their own - and none of them can ask a policeman...This classic whodunit adopted a completely new approach: Milward Kennedy proposed the title, John Rhode plotted the murder and provided the suspects, and four of their contemporaries were asked to lend their well-known detectives to the task of providing solutions to the crime. But there was to be another twist: the authors would swap detectives and use the characters in their sections of the book. Thus Gladys Mitchell and Helen Simpson swapped Mrs Bradley and Sir John Saumarez, and Dorothy Sayers and Anthony Berkeley swapped Lord Peter Wimsey and Roger Sheringham, enabling the authors to indulge in skilful and sly parodies of each other. The contributors to ASK A POLICEMAN are: John Rhode, Helen Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, Milward Kennedy with Agatha Christie and Martin Edwards."
521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE
Target audience note General (US: Trade)
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Classic crime
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Helen Simpson
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gladys Mitchell
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Anthony Berkeley
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Dorothy L. Sayers
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Agatha Christie
906 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT F, LDF (RLIN)
Category 178
Subcategory 111
Holdings
Price effective from Barcode Date last seen Damaged status Withdrawn status Current library Total Renewals Lost status Full call number Date acquired Not for loan Source of classification or shelving scheme Koha item type Date checked out Total Checkouts Home library Checked out
25/03/2014 CH66686 30/03/2017   On shelf   5   F BER 25/03/2014   Dewey Decimal Classification General Books 12/12/2015 7    
13/07/2016 KB024617 20/04/2017   On shelf Kandy 1   F DET 13/07/2016   Dewey Decimal Classification General Books 26/02/2017 4 Kandy  
13/07/2016 KB024617 22/09/2022   On shelf Kandy 3   F DET 13/07/2016   Dewey Decimal Classification General Books 22/09/2022 12 Kandy 13/10/2022