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A new edition of the classic whodunit, which was a collaboration between Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Gladys Mitchell, Helen Simpson, John Rhode and Milward Kennedy, aka The Detection Club. The authors swapped characters and parodied each other, and it also includes a never before preface by Christie.
Synopsis
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.