A review by bookworm_baggins
The Scoop / Behind the Screen by Clemence Dane, Julian Symons, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, Hugh Walpole, The Detection Club, Ronald Knox, E.C. Bentley, Freeman Wills Crofts

4.0

This book is two short stories written in serial by members of the London Detection Club in the early 1930s. I enjoyed the set up for both of them a bit more than the conclusions. I picked this up because Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie (who were both presidents of the detection club) contribute to both stories. I loved that the voice and flow felt contiguous throughout the different stories, and it was fun to read Sayers's comments at the end on how the authors outlined the work together, but basically wrote their own ideas and jumped off from each other. In The Scoop, I figured out the "whodunit" which was satisfying, even if the ending turned a bit over the top. Behind the Curtain started out feeling SO terrifically ominous. I didn't feel like the ending was completely satisfying, but it was interesting to hear that the first three chapters/authors set the stage, which the second three authors/chapters had to figure out how to wrap things up. Certainly intriguing and a great light read for my tired brain.