"The Floating Admiral"  was a major find for me.  I found it at a charity shop for 25cents on this past Boxing Day.  So I was practicing the true motive behind the day, helping out others who are having a hard time.

The story was interesting and engaging.  It had the usual bunch of red herrings.  After each author wrote his or her chapter a solution for the chapter had to be provided.  Some of the authors came up with unique solutions and some of the authors built upon solutions provided by others.  Agatha Christie wrote a very engaging chapter that helped pull together things that had been mentioned in the story so far.  Dorothy L. Sayers chapter was one of the longer ones with and even longer solution.

The way the story went was, a new person in the neighbourhood was found dead floating in a boat.  Who was this man and why did he die?

This is one story that needs to be read, especially if one is a Christie completest.

Currently I'm reading "The Man In The Queue" by Josephine Tey.  She in another of my favourite writers.  In my opinion one of her best works is "The Daughters of Time."  She created a new mystery format with that story that is now often copied.  A current writer to use the format was Colin Dexter in one of his Morse stories.  

Keep on reading everybody. As well as finding those gems in charity shops and libraries.