Six Against the Yard

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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.

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I can unreservedly commend this ingenious piece of collaboration. Punch

Reviews for previous Detection Club re-issues:

A must for all connoisseurs of detective fiction. Literary Review

This years most welcome reissue. Sunday Telegraph

A book of irresistible charm for students of the detective story. Times Literary Supplement

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The 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 thrillers) and election is secured by a vote of the club on recommendation by two or more members, and involves the undertaking of an oath. Dorothy L. Sayers