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Book Review: “The Floating Admiral” by Members of the Detection Club

01/20/2024 Ingrid Haunold 0

Please note: I first published this book review on the “Goodreads”-website in 2022. My Rating: 2 (of 5) “stars” The book was first published in 1931, I bought a paperback copy published in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers. Hugely disappointing, one of the worst mystery novels I’ve ever read. On paper, this is an intriguing concept: 13 mystery novel writers (including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton) – all members of The Detection Club – wrote a crime novel together. The book was first published in 1931. Each writer builds upon clues presented by the previous chapters’ writers […]