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020			_a9780007468645
082			_aF DET
100			_aDetection Club
245			_aAsk a Policeman _cDetection Club
260			_aUnited Kingdom _bHarperCollins Publishers _c1-Aug-13
300			_a336 _bPaperback
365			_aINR _b299.00
505			_aClassic crime
520			_a"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			_aGeneral (US: Trade)
650			_aClassic crime
700			_a Helen Simpson
700			_a Gladys Mitchell
700			_a Anthony Berkeley
700			_a Dorothy L. Sayers
700			_a Agatha Christie
906			_a178 _b111
999			_c521571 _d521571
952			_w2014-03-25 _pCH66686 _r2017-03-30 _40 _00 _bCH _m5 _10 _oF BER _d2014-03-25 _70 _2ddc _yBK _s2015-12-12 _l7 _aCH
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