Ask a Policeman, Fiction, Paperback, The Detection Club, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Gladys Mitchell and Helen Simpson

Collins Crime Club

Ask a PolicemanAuthor(s): The Detection Club, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Gladys Mitchell, Helen Simpson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom\nImprint: Collins Crime Club\nISBN-13: 9780008283179, 978-0008283179\nSynopsis\nThis classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by 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 approach to writing and her fellow writers in the Detection Club.\nLord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder in the study of his country house poses a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his death, Lord Comstocks 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. Ab.