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A review by l1nds
The Floating Admiral by The Detection Club
3.0
It starts out gloriously enough, but frankly it's all downhill after Dorothy L. Sayers. Her chapter is the best by miles (I'm excluding Agatha Christie from the criticism because her chapter is so short) and serves to highlight the shortcomings of her colleagues in the Detection Club.
Side note: there's a foreword by Simon Brett, the current President of the Detection Club and I can only assume he didn't bother to read the book because he writes of GK Chesterton "the prologue he wrote to this volume seems to bear no relation to anything in the ensuing novel". WTF? They must have lowered the standards for entry to the Club since it's inception, because the events in the prologue are crucial to the heart of the matter.
Side note: there's a foreword by Simon Brett, the current President of the Detection Club and I can only assume he didn't bother to read the book because he writes of GK Chesterton "the prologue he wrote to this volume seems to bear no relation to anything in the ensuing novel". WTF? They must have lowered the standards for entry to the Club since it's inception, because the events in the prologue are crucial to the heart of the matter.