A review by lucyb
The Floating Admiral by Edgar Jepson, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, Victor L. Whitechurch, Milward Kennedy, G. D. H. Cole, Agatha Christie, Anthony Berkeley, John Rhode, Ronald Knox, Henry Wade, Clemence Dane, Simon Brett, Margaret Cole, The Detection Club, David Timson

3.0

I was afraid that this would be merely gimmicky, or (on the too many cooks principle) incoherent; I was pleasantly surprised. I found this to be an enjoyable whodunit, liberally strewn with red herrings and mysterious motives. The multiple authorial intents did tend to make the writing expository rather than exploratory... thus foiling one of my own habits as a reader of detective stories, which is to try to form my own judgments of the characters and motives involved. I was surprised, to be honest, by the extent to which Agatha Christie's and Dorothy L. Sayers' contributions stood out (though not, of course, by the fact that they did so.) Both chapters are unusually vivid in their characterization, and both of their solutions remarkably ingenious.