Ein Angler entdeckt ein treibendes Boot mit dem toten Admiral Penistone: er wurde ermordet. Aber warum, von wem und wie? Das fragt sich vor allem Inspektor Rudge. - Verschiedene Autoren schreiben den Krimi weiter fort, müssen dazu alle Hinweise der Vorgänger aufnehmen und geben jeder auch ein eigenes Ende. Weitere Autoren sind: Canon Victor L. Whitechurch, G.D.H. und M. Cole, Henry Wade, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Ronald A. Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane und Anthony Berkeley

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OP een avond in het hoofdkwartier bijeen besloten de leden van de illustere club van Engelse detectiveschrijvers hun gezamenlijke krachten op één detectiveroman te beproeven. Ieder van de leden zou een hoofdstuk voor zijn of haar rekening nemen zonder te weten welke plot de auteur van de voorgaande episode in gedachten had. Dit boek is het resultaat van hun gezamenlijk werk.

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AGATHA CHRISTIE, DOROTHY L SAYERS, G K CHESTERTON -
ALL WRITING THE SAME MYSTERY!
It was a typical foggy day when the members of the world-famous Detection Club gathered at the club's London headquarters.

Each contributor tackled the mystery presented without knowing what solution the previous authors had in mind.
For the first time in history, the creators of Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Father Brown all applied their expertise to the same case.
The result - the unique classic that you are about to read!

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"Is that your hat?"
"Yes, Inspector, certainly it is. But will you tell me why you ask me this - and what you have all come about?"
"I will, sir. This hat was found in your boat early this morning. Your boat was drifting with the tide up-stream. And in her was the dead body of your opposite neighbour, Admiral Penistone - murdered, Mr. Mount."

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The Floating Admiral is a collaborative detective novel written by fourteen members of the Detection Club in 1931. The twelve chapters of the story were each written by a different author, in the following sequence: Canon Victor Whitechurch, G. D. H. Cole and Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley. G. K. Chesterton contributed a Prologue, which was written after the novel had been completed.

In a literary game of consequences, each author would write one chapter, leaving G.K. Chesterton to write a typically paradoxical prologue and Anthony Berkeley to tie up all the loose ends. In addition, each of the authors provided their own solution in a sealed envelope, all of which appeared at the end of the book.

As Sayers explained in the introduction to the book, "Each writer must construct his instalment with a definite solution in view—that is, he must not introduce new complications merely 'to make it more difficult' ... [E]ach writer was bound to deal faithfully with all the difficulties left for his consideration by his predecessors." (from Wikipedia)

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CONTENTS:
Introduction by Dorothy L. Sayers
Prologue: "The Three Pipe Dreams" by G. K. Chesterton
Chapter I.: Corpse Ahoy! by Canon Victor L. Whitechurch
Chaper II: Breaking the News by G. D. H. and M. Cole
Chapter III: Bright Thoughts on Tides by Henry Wade
Chapter IV: Mainly Conversation by Agatha Christie
Chapter V.: Inspector Rudge Begins to Form a Theory by John Rhode
Chapter VI.: Inspector Rudge Thinks Better of It by Milward Kennedy
Chapter VII.: Shocks for the Inspector by Dorothy L. Sayres
Chapter VIII.:Thirty-Nine Articles of Doubt by Ronald A. Knox
Chapter IX.: The Visitor in the Night by Freeman Wills Crofts
Chapter X.: The Bathroom Basin by Edgar Jepson
Chapter XI.: At the Vicarage by Clemence Dane
Chapter XII Clearing up the Mess by Anthony Berkeley
Appendix I.: Solutions
Appendix II Notes on Mooring of Boat
Counsel's Opinion on Fitzgerald's Will