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Jan 1, 1983 · Six novelists combined their efforts into Ask a Policeman, namely Helen Simpson, Milward Kennedy, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Gladys Mitchell, and Dorothy L. Sayers. The plot is only a semi-serious one, although the parody elements never outweigh the detection elements.
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Jun 13, 2019 · Ask a Policeman. Paperback – June 13, 2019. This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by 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 approach to writing and her fellow writers in the ...
Apr 28, 2010 · 4.0 out of 5 stars Ask a Policeman- a very British answer to the Keystone Cops Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2021
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Ask a Policeman. Ask a Policeman is a 1955 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett. [1] [2] It is the forty first in her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard. [3] Published by the Collins Crime Club, the title references the popular music hall song Ask a ...
Ask A Policeman is a prime example of the comedic skills of Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt who provide richly detailed characterisations of three village policemen with the help of an inventive storyline, witty dialogue and the brisk direction of Marcel Varnel. Although the plot recalls Oh, Mr. Porter!
Ask a Policeman doesn't have that saving grace: London never really comes to life, and the Bright Young Things who get involved in the rum goings on at Rosetta Tower are bland, and hard to tell apart. (Also, I'd say that their "jolly good, what ho" dialogue is about 20 years out of date, and feels like something out of a rip-off of a Noel ...
