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A review by jessica_sim
De dood van een admiraal by John Rhode, Clemence Dane, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, The Detection Club, Ronald Knox, G. D. H. Cole, G.K. Chesterton, Henry Wade, Edgar Jepson, Milward Kennedy, Margaret Cole, Victor L. Whitechurch, Freeman Wills Crofts
5.0
This is a fun read, but only if you are aware that it was written as a game. The big detective writers of the time came together and wrote one chapter each, all without knowing the direction the previous writers were taking with the story.
Each chapter is therefore written by someone else, which can be a bit confusing. All though they all seem to try and keep the narrative tone of those before them you can often still "hear" the author's own voice coming through too. Of course, that happens more with those writers you are familiar with. For me Dorothy Sayers, R Knox, Agatha Christie and Berkeley were very easy to spot and maybe even more enjoyable too.
You can imagine that a plot can become very confusing with twelve writers taking a go at it, and it absolutely does. But all that is forgiving the moment you open appendix I and you can read the theories each of them had in their own mind when they wrote their own chapters. I don't think I will ever think favorably of Canon Victor L. Whitechurch or G.D.H. and M. Cole because they apparently just wrote confusing chapters with no end game in mind.
Each chapter is therefore written by someone else, which can be a bit confusing. All though they all seem to try and keep the narrative tone of those before them you can often still "hear" the author's own voice coming through too. Of course, that happens more with those writers you are familiar with. For me Dorothy Sayers, R Knox, Agatha Christie and Berkeley were very easy to spot and maybe even more enjoyable too.
You can imagine that a plot can become very confusing with twelve writers taking a go at it, and it absolutely does. But all that is forgiving the moment you open appendix I and you can read the theories each of them had in their own mind when they wrote their own chapters. I don't think I will ever think favorably of Canon Victor L. Whitechurch or G.D.H. and M. Cole because they apparently just wrote confusing chapters with no end game in mind.