Six Against the Yard | 
so-soThis lost points for a failed concept. The idea of the book (written in the ‘30s) is that six of the leading crime novelists of the day wrote a story with the theme “the perfect murder”, while a former Scotland Yard chief applies his knowledge to comment on whether the chosen method would indeed be a perfect murder. The individual stories are great, the police commentaries so full of “what ifs” that they do nothing but disappoint
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