A review by lindseysparks
The Floating Admiral by The Detection Club

4.0

Was this the best mystery ever? No. Was it incredibly fun and entertaining anyway? Absolutely. This was jointly written by member of the Detection Club, including Agatha Christie, Sayers and Chesterton. Each author wrote a chapter, not knowing what would come next. Any clue had to be wrapped up by the end. This makes the later chapters better as they work to weave random events from the earlier chapters together. It's an amazing achievement. The story makes sense and is better plotted than many more conventionally written stories. Each of the later authors also provided a solution, based only on what they knew at their chapter. Christie's was my favorite. This did start a little slow, and Chesterton's prologue just seemed really out of place, and wasn't good, which as disappointing. Overall though it was a fun, successful experiment.