A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashierâs mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand... Seven of the worldâs greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the worldâs most spine-tingling mysteries â all of them astonishingly TRUE.
This remarkable collection from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral, Ask a Policeman and Six Against the Yard back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the tastiest crime fiction.
âThe Detection Club is a private association of writers of detective fiction in Great Britain, existing chiefly for the purpose of eating dinners together at suitable intervals and of talking illimitable shop ... Its membership is confined to those who have written genuine detective stories (not adventure tales or âthrillersâ) and election is secured by a vote of the club on recommendation by two or more members, and involves the undertaking of an oath.â Dorothy L. Sayers