Notes

Preface by Agatha Christie. The members of The Detection Club: Anthony Berkeley, Milward Kennedy, Gladys Mitchell, John Rhode, Dorothy L Sayers, Helen Simpson. Lord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. In the hours before his death, Lord Comstock's visitors included the government Chief Whip, an Archbishop and the Assistant Commissioner for Scotland Yard. Originally published 1933.