Six Against the Yard
Description of book
A unique anthology for crime aficionados – six ‘perfect murder’ stories written by the most accomplished crime writers of the 1930s, designed to fox real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Cornish, who comments on whether or not these crimes could have genuinely been solved.
Is the ‘perfect murder’ possible? Can that crime be committed with such consummate care, with such exacting skill, that it is unsolvable – even to the most astute investigator?
In this unique collection, legendary crime writers Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers and Russell Thorndike each attempt to create the unsolvable murder, which Superintendent Cornish of the CID then attempts to unravel…
This clever literary battle of wits from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral and Ask a Policeman back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the experts from the Golden Age of detective fiction at their most ingenious.
For true crime aficionados, this new edition includes an essay by Agatha Christie, one of the inaugural members of the Detection Club. Unseen since 1929, her article discusses the infamous Croydon Poisonings, a real-life perfect murder, the solution to which remains a mystery to this day…
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I enjoy murder mysteries and I’m extremely partial to golden age detective fiction, but I do find these several accounts of fictional people plotting the murder of someone to be really quite depressing. It’s a completely different point of view to the usual detective story where the crime happens and the detective works out afterwards how it was done. Here you follow people as they do the preparation and planning and it’s rather grim. Former Superintendent Cornish was a real person and he really did write these analyses. There is, apparently a paper examining his thoughtful approach to the modus operandi put forward in each case by these distinguished authors. It gives an unusual focus on detective fiction and just when you thought “yes, it’s the perfect murder and they’ll get away with it“ former superintendent Cornish points out why they quite possibly wouldn’t.
Norma
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★Narration5
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