A review by julia_may
Six Against the Yard by Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, The Detection Club, Ronald Knox, Margery Allingham, George W. Cornish, Russell Thorndike, Freeman Wills Crofts

3.0

If I wasn't reading this for a book club discussion, I would've chucked it a long time ago. It was a slogfest and the format, frankly, sucked. The stories are too short to get "meaty" and apart from a couple, weren't at all compelling. The best ones are the first and the last, by Margery Allingham and Freeman Wills Crofts respectively. I was surprised to find that Dorothy L Sayers' story was quite lukewarm and arguably there wasn't even a murder there. Agatha Christie's essay on an unrelated real-life unsolved case was a non-event; it shed no light and provided no interesting perspective.

#1 Margery Allingham - 4*
#2 Father Ronald Knox - 3*
#3 Anthony Berkeley - 2*
#4 Russell Thorndike - 2*
#5 Dorothy L Sayers - 3*
#6 Freeman Wills Crofts - 4*

Russell Thorndike's story contains some of the most revolting race-related statements and value judgements I've encountered in Golden Age Detective stories.