Ask A Policeman Ruth Rendell Arrow Books FFC|FFP Paperback 2009 behind shuttered windows and on

behind shuttered windows and on factory floors

Dashiell Hammett virtually invented hard-boiled crime fiction

When Ingram hears about a deadly automobile accident on his police scanner

part-time reporter Lucy Stone becomes unseasonably entangled in handmade quilts-and a twisted case of murder

Alice's troubles

Ask A Policeman Ruth Rendell Arrow Books FFC|FFP Paperback 2009 behind shuttered windows and onThis 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 Detection Club.