#MurderEveryMonday A special edition

Today’s #MurderEveryMonday is a title with a word that starts with the letter Q. I’m hoping I can use the title in Portuguese for this one, because it is the perfect excuse to tell you about a special edition, that is not much known.

The book chosen is The Floating Admiral, which title was translated to Portuguese as Quem Matou o Almirante?

The story was written by the members of The Detection Club and in a round-robin format, meaning each author would write a chapter to continue the story without knowing how it would go. The publishers of the Colecção Vampiro, a book collection I’ve been talking about in this blog, decided to published this book when the collection reached 500 volumes in March of 1989. But besides the regular edition that follows the design of the other volumes in the collection, they also decided to publish a special limited and numbered edition in a totally different design. This is bigger book, it’s a paperback, but has a dust jacket with the title and the logo (the bat) of the collection embossed in. It is also printed in a much better and thicker paper. Both volumes have a list of all the titles published in the collection up to number 500 and their date of publication (I’m always forgetting this resource!).

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BBC Confirms Agatha Christie Drama & Greenlights ‘The Hairdresser Mysteries’ As Replacements For Canceled Series ‘Doctors’
#News #BBC #BBCStudios #Doctors #TheDetectionClub #TheHairdresserMysteries

https://deadline.com/2025/09/bbc-confirms-agatha-christie-drama-hairdresser-mysteries-doctors-1236528522/

Agatha Christie To Be Fictionalized In TV Series For BBC & BritBox About Mysterious Society Of Crime Writers
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https://deadline.com/2025/07/agatha-christie-series-the-detection-club-bbc-britbox-1236464899/

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Books you can read & download for free right now – The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke

R. Austin Freeman was a member of The Detection Club and he is known for the invention of the inverted mystery, where the reader gets from the beginning the description of the crime and/or the perpetrator, but still wants to read the story to know how or why it was done.

I’m suggesting The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke, a collection of short stories with a preface where Freeman explains how he came to write this type of mystery. Dr. Thorndyke, Freeman’s detective, is a medical doctor, like its creator, turned forensic scientist, so if you like mysteries with scientific know-how, this is also a good choice.

So, this weekend give yourself some “me time” with no worries, nor rushes, get a cup of tea (or coffee, by all means) and curl up with these (kind of different) mystery stories, because you really deserve it.

You can download the book at Project Gutenberg, there are several formats you can choose to read on your mobile, computer, ereader, you can even read the book on your browser.

(I may be making this “It’s Weekend, Let’s Read” a kind of habit, let me know in the comments if it’s something you’re finding interesting).

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Happy publication day to members of The Detection Club for "Playing Dead", a collection of short stories to honour the anniversary of Simon Brett! 🎉 cc/ @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social @severnhouse.bsky.social

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Não me esqueci do aniversário da Dorothy L. Sayers no dia 13 de Junho, escolhendo estes 4 livros, mas o dia ficou complicado e acabei por não partilhar. Copywriter em publicidade, foi fundadora e presidente do The Detection Club, e é uma das minhas autoras de policiais favoritas.

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The #TBR tin has spoken.
Next read for fiction:
Great tales of detection has 19 short stories selected and introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers. This collection was originally published in 1936, but it's still easy to find this more "recent" edition from Everyman.
Sayers edited several short stories collections and besides the interesting stories, she also wrote insightful introductions about the history and development of the genre.
I'll be using an Oxford related bookmark.
Next read for non-fiction:
Howdunit is a collection of essays about the genre and the work of detective, crime, thrillers authors. The articles are all from the past and present members of The Detection Club, organised and edited by Martin Edwards.
Bookmark from the Portuguese edition of The Floating Admiral, also a The Detection Club work.

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Found another one! Yay, \o/
I would say that a majority of my favourite crime fiction authors were or are members of The Detection Club, and the club also created collective works, so I've been keeping a list at my blog here https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/the-detection-club-list-of-works/
Except for those that were republished recently, older titles are either difficult to find ou too expensive, so I was quite happy to fina a reasonable copy. This one is short stories where the linked theme is a presence of a jury, formal or not.
And of course it will go to the Detection Club's shelf!

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