Anthony Berkeley
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Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn't solve! Stephen Munro, a demobbed army officer, reconciles himself to taking a job as a footman to make ends meet. Employed at Wintringham Hall, the delightful but decaying Sussex country residence of the elderly Lady Susan Carey, his first task entails welcoming her eccentric...
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First published in 1926. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband's medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the newspapers. Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspoken young novelist, is convinced that there is 'too much evidence' against Mrs Bentley and sets out to prove her innocence....
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"[Anthony Berkeley's] tale of petty rivalries, affairs, and revenge plots is so deliciously entertaining. [Murder in the Basement is] a pioneering example of the "whowasdunin" that, like that corpse in the basement, richly deserves exhumation."- Kirkus Reviews
When two newlyweds discover that a corpse has been buried in the basement of their new home, a grueling case begins to trace the identity of the victim. With all avenues of investigation approaching...
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"A witty and tricky plot and a genuinely shocking conclusion."-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
A mystery dinner theater party thrown by local author with a taste "for rather gruesome humor" requires guests come dressed as infamous killers-Jack the Ripper, Dr. Crippen, and the like. Whatever could go wrong?
Know-it-all amateur criminologist Roger Sheringham settles in for an evening of beer, small talk, and analyzing his companions. Ena Stratton,...
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"The Classic Collection of Anthony Berkeley: Illustrated" presents a curated selection of iconic works by the esteemed British crime fiction writer Anthony Berkeley. This anthology includes illustrated editions of some of Berkeley's most notable mysteries, such as "The Layton Court Mystery," "The Wychford Poisoning Case," "The at Lovers Cove," "The Silk Stocking Murders," and several others.
In "The Layton Court Mystery," readers are drawn into a...
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"The Wintringham Mystery (Cicely Disappears)" by Anthony Berkeley is a captivating mystery novel that keeps readers on the edge of their seats from start to finish. In this illustrated edition, readers are transported to the quiet English village of Wintringham, where the disappearance of a young woman named Cicely sparks a series of perplexing events.
As the villagers grapple with Cicely's vanishing act, suspicion falls on various residents, each...
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The renowned British crime writer's classic locked-room Golden Age mystery that introduced amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham.
A party at Layton Court, the country house of Victor Stanworth, is disrupted when the host is found shot through the forehead in his own library, a suicide as far as the police are concerned. After all, the gun is found in his hand, a note has been left, and the room is locked from the inside. But one of the guests, author...
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First published in 1928, public domain in the US and Canada. A Roger Sheringham mystery from Golden Age author Anthony Berkeley When the daughter of a country parson goes missing in London, Roger Sheringham receives a letter from her father pleading for help. As the amateur sleuth investigates, he discovers that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a door by her own silk stocking. It is presumed suicide, but when more young women are found...
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Stephen Munro, a demobbed army officer, reconciles himself to taking a job as a footman to make ends meet. Employed at Wintringham Hall, the delightful but decaying Sussex country residence of the elderly Lady Susan Carey, his first task entails welcoming her eccentric guests to a weekend house-party, at which her bombastic nephew — who recognises Stephen from his former life — decides that an after-dinner séance would be more entertaining than...
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Six "perfect murders" by Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other Golden Age Mystery authors of the Detection Club-plus an essay by Agatha Christie.
Founded in England in the 1930s, the Detection Club brought together an impressive array of Golden Age Mystery authors. Their projects included The Floating Admiral, a whodunit in which twelve different writers contributed individual chapters, as well as Ask a Policeman, another collaboration...