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This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, ‘Detective Writers in England’, in which she discusses her fellow writers in the Detection Club.Lord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder in the study of his country houseposes a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his death, Lord Comstock’s visitors included the government Chief Whip, an Archbishop, and the Assistant Commissioner for Scotland Yard. Suspicion falls upon them all and threatens the impartiality of any police investigation. Abandoning protocol, the Home Secretary invites four famous detectives to solve the case: Mrs Adela Bradley, Sir John Saumarez, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Mr Roger Sheringham. All are different, all are plausible, all are on their own – and none of them can ask a policeman…This classic whodunit adopted a completely new approach: Milward Kennedy proposed the title, John Rhode plotted the murder and provided the suspects, and four of their contemporaries were asked to lend their well-known detectives to the task of providing solutions to the crime. But there was to be another twist: the authors would swap detectives and use the characters in their sections of the book. Thus Gladys Mitchell and Helen Simpson swapped Mrs Bradley and Sir John Saumarez, and Dorothy Sayers and Anthony Berkeley swapped Lord Peter Wimsey and Roger Sheringham, enabling the authors to indulge in skilful and sly parodies of each other.The contributors to ASK A POLICEMAN are: John Rhode, Helen Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, Milward Kennedy with Agatha Christie and Martin Edwards.

VERI LUMEL. Olav Johansen on düslektikust palgamõrvar, kes kipub liialt kergesti armuma. Tal on käsil pikk armastuskiri, samal ajal töötab ta Oslo kõige mõjuvõimsama narkokuninga Daniel Hoffmanni teenistuses. Ühel päeval saab Olav aga pisut ootamatu ülesande – kõrvaldada Hoffmanni noor, kaunis ja truudusetu naine. Ta hakkab teda salaja jälgima, kuni juhtub vältimatu: ta armub temasse. Oslo kohal langeb laia lund ning see 1975. aasta talv tõotab pakase poolest veel kauaks meelde jääda.VEEL VERD. 1977. aasta augustis sõidab üks mees muust maailmast eraldatud külla Norra põhjaosas. Ta nimi on Ulf, tal pole pagasit, kuid ta väidab, et läheb jahile. Veetes aega saamide ja lestadiuslaste seas, kes järgivad vana kristluse tavasid, avastab ta enda jaoks kultuuri, mis on korraga külalislahke ja ainulaadne, abivalmis ja tundmatu. Küla kirikuteener Lea annab Ulfile kasutada vintpüssi ja jahitorni, kus südaööni paistev päike teda ärkvel hoiab, samal ajal kui ta rahutult Finnmarki monotoonset tasandikku jälgib. Tasapisi saavad aga Lea ja tema poeg Knut aru, et Ulf ei olegi jahimees, vaid hoopis ise kellegi teise saakloom. Ja jahimehed on juba teel.