Tag: Helen de Guerry Simpson

Ask a Policeman

Ask a Policeman

by The Detection Club (Arthur Baker, 1933)

aka John Rhode, Helen de Guerry Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Milward Kennedy

audiobook read by David Timson (Lamplight, 2020)

Book cover: “Ask a Policeman” by The Detection Club—aka John Rhode, Helen de Guerry Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Milward Kennedy (Arthur Baker, 1933); audiobook read by David Timson (Lamplight, 2020)

A fix-up murder mystery where famous detective novelists swap protagonists and one-up themselves providing different investigations of/solutions to the same crime. Intended as a parody, supposedly, but all very self-indulgent and neither humorous nor engaging—more an increasingly turgid raking of minutiae.

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