The Sunken Sailor (A Serial Novel) - Hardcover

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9780425194287: The Sunken Sailor (A Serial Novel)

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ISBN 10: 0425194280 ISBN 13: 9780425194287

Publisher: Berkley Hardcover, 2004

Fourteen masters of the mystery and suspense genre--including Jan Burke, Carolyn Hart, Simon Brett, and Edward Marston--each contribute an individual chapter to a round robin mystery about a weekend house party in a small English village that is turned upside down by the discovery of a body tied to a submerged statue of Neptune at the bottom of a pond. 15,000 first printing.

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About the Author:

Elizabeth Foxwell has edited and co-edited eight anthologies including the Murder, They Wrote series (Berkley) and published several short stories, including two in Berkley's Crime through Time series. She is a contributing editor to Mystery Scene.

From Publishers Weekly:

In the best serial novels, like the 1932 classic The Floating Admiral, individual contributors play off one another, but here, in this spoof of an interwar-period English manor-house mystery, a diverse group of American and British authors mostly disregard preceding developments and redo them in as absurd a way as possible. Simon Brett, president of the U.K.'s Detection Club under whose aegis The Floating Admiral was written, gets things off to a grand start by introducing a slew of briefly and vividly sketched characters and the somewhat dilapidated Castle Crawsbey. A proper butler, an American admiral, a Russian countess, a South American adventuress and other eccentric types offer ample opportunity for farce. Jan Burke, Dorothy Cannell, Margaret Coel, Deborah Crombie, Eileen Dreyer, Carolyn Hart, Francine Mathews, Sharan Newman, Alexandra Ripley, Walter Satterthwait, Sarah Smith and Carolyn Wheat each add mayhem and slapstick as they cheerfully flout convention, fair play and common sense. Edward Marston does a heroic job of trying to create a suitable ending from the rubble of identities and plot fragments. Sometimes amusing, but too often merely silly, the book ultimately sinks and the crew goes down with the ship.
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