The Sinking Admiral
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Narrated by:
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Tom Clegg
About this listen
The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club’s collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral.
‘The Admiral’ is a pub in the Suffolk seaside village of Crabwell, The Admiral Byng. ‘The Admiral’ is also the nickname of its landlord, Geoffrey Horatio Fitzsimmons, as well as the name of the landlord’s dinghy. None of them are as buoyant as they should be, for the pub is threatened with closure due to falling takings.
Tempers are already frayed due to the arrival of a television documentary team when Fitzsimmons is found dead in his tethered boat. The villagers assume a simple case of suicide and fear that their debt-ridden pub will now sink without trace. The journalists seem determined to finish the job by raking up old skeletons, but they weren’t banking on the fact that this story has been written by 14 extremely competitive crime writers – arch bamboozlers who will stop at nothing to save a good pub.
The Sinking Admiral, edited by the Detection Club’s outgoing President – author and broadcaster Simon Brett, OBE – continues a tradition established by the Detection Club’s founders in 1931 when Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts and eleven other esteemed authors wrote The Floating Admiral, a ‘collaborative novel’ to challenge themselves, fox their readers and help to pay for the Club’s running costs. Now, 85 years later, 14 of today’s leading crime writers have repeated this unique game of literary consequences, producing an original, ebullient and archetypal whodunit that will keep readers guessing right up to what crime lovers insist on calling the dénouement…
The contributors to The Sinking Admiral are:
SIMON BRETT
KATE CHARLES
NATASHA COOPER
STELLA DUFFY
MARTIN EDWARDS
RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS
TIM HEALD
MICHAEL JECKS
JANET LAURENCE
PETER LOVESEY
MICHAEL RIDPATH
DAVID ROBERTS
L.C. TYLER
LAURA WILSON
all members of The Detection Club.
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Critic reviews
"This year's most welcome reissue." ( Sunday Telegraph)
"A book of irresistible charm for students of the detective story." ( Times Literary Supplement)
What listeners say about The Sinking Admiral
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- Freddie Roberts
- 21-07-18
A New Find
Loved the twisting tale of this collaboration, a new find for me. totally absorbing listen
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- Miss Julie E. Ellis
- 15-04-17
brilliant
again the crime detection club creates a well written crime mystery for us to solve.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- CharmayneFB
- 27-07-16
Fabulous
Kept me guessing until the end. Loved the main character and felt that the different authors blender well together. Great fun. More please!
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Hannah May
- 28-04-17
Really disapointing
What did you like best about The Sinking Admiral? What did you like least?
I didn't like very much really. It seemed to consist mostly of shallow characters trying to have sex with one another in lack lustre ways. The phrase 'melting brown eyes' got so over-worn I felt like throwing something at the speakers.
Would you recommend The Sinking Admiral to your friends? Why or why not?
No. It's dull. Whereas the original Floating Admiral was a book written by relay race (giving rise to speculation about authorial intent) this book was written by committee and it shows.
How could the performance have been better?
The reader seemed to be trying to imply he had some kind of secret knowledge all the time. If you can imagine a voice with a knowing wink this would be it. Deeply irritating.
Did The Sinking Admiral inspire you to do anything?
Other than avoid the Crime Club? No.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- EGR
- 20-02-20
Amateurish writing, full of clichés, poorly read.
The plot is booting, those characters that are not one dimensional are overblown cliches. The reader constantly mispronounces words.
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