Ask a Policeman

Ask a Policeman by The Detection Club. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780007468621.

HardCover. Pub Date :2012-08-30 Pages: 336 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK This new edition. which is reproduced from a first printing of the book. is introduced by the author 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 fellow writers in the Detection Club.Lord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places.His murder in the study of his country houseposes 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 . Abandoning protocol. the Home Secretary invites four famous detectives to solve th...