The first two chapters are the work of John Dickson Carr who sets up an interesting adventure scenario in which a mystery author arrives at a seaside fun fair at the urging of his publisher. Each of the authors gets two consecutive short chapters, just eleven or twelve pages, to make their contribution to the story each picking up from the conclusion of the previous author. The first story in this double-header originally appeared as a serial in the News Chronicle in 1954. Crime on the Coast Authors: John Dickson Carr, Valerie White, Laurence Meynell, Joan Fleming, Michael Cronin, Elizabeth Ferrars No Flowers by Request boasts a more familiar lineup of some of the leading female crime writers of the decade who likely better known to modern readers.
The list of collaborators is a little less star-studded than the one in The Floating Admiral with the first story featuring few familiar names other than Carr’s.
This book is a very slim volume as each of the stories is only about seventy-five pages long. Perhaps the most famous of these is The Floating Admiral but there were several others including the two efforts contained in this volume. The Detection Club produced several collaborative stories in which members contributed a section making up a part of a bigger mystery story.
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