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Author : Anthony Berkeley (pseud. van Anthony Berkeley Cox.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1340635314
Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Ulverscroft Special Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 1444838687
Graham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that eighth wonder of the modern world, a happy marriage. But into the middle of it drops a box of chocolates. Joan Bendix is killed by a poisoned box of liqueur chocolates that cannot have been intended for her. The police investigation reaches a dead end. Chief Inspector Moresby calls on Roger Sheringham and his Crimes Circle - six amateur but intrepid detectives - to consider the case. The evidence is laid before them and they take turns to offer a solution. Each is more convincing than the last, slowly filling in the pieces of the puzzle, until the dazzling conclusion.
Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504066211
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 Roger Sheringham, has his doubts. The bullet wound is not positioned where it could have been easily self-inflicted. With a house full of partygoers and servants, suspects abound. It will take Sheringham’s sharp wit and fearless investigating to deduce who brought the festivities to a fatal end. The founder of the Detection Club in London, along with Agatha Christie and other writers, Anthony Berkeley wrote numerous novels, sometimes using the pseudonyms Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts. The Layton Court Mystery is his first book in the Roger Sheringham Cases, which includes The Poisoned Chocolates Case and The Silk Stocking Murders, among other titles. “Certainly, Berkeley’s short and fascinating career deserves to be saluted. For fans of the classic English crime novel, his books remain enjoyable to this day. Nobody has ever done ironic ingenuity better than Anthony Berkeley.” —Mystery Scene “He was one of the most influential crime novelists of the 1920s and 1930s, but has languished somewhat in obscurity since. A troubled, dark, incredibly innovative writer . . .” —Shedunnit
Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : University Extension University of California
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : OSU:32435003057221
Author : Kaye Jones
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781473881402
The true story of the seemingly respectable woman convicted of a murderous spree in Victorian-era Brighton, England. In 1871, when the news broke of a series of mysterious poisonings in the popular resort town of Brighton, shock and horror gripped the public. Even more disturbing was the revelation that the culprit was not a common criminal but a local “lady of fortune,” Christiana Edmunds. Starting in March, Christiana had sent out dozens of poisoned chocolates and sweets to Brighton’s residents. Her campaign resulted in the death of four-year-old vacationer Sidney Barker, and wounded countless others. Her arrest in August provoked such an emotional response from the local public that her trial was moved from Brighton to London’s Old Bailey. The prosecution anticipated an easy victory. Christiana had not confessed, but witnesses confirmed she had purchased strychnine and their testimonies placed her at the scenes of the crimes. She had a motive too, argued the prosecution; she was a scorned woman. Despite the defense’s best efforts, the jury took only one hour to convict her of the murder of Sidney Barker and the attempted murder of three others. This book tells the engrossing story of the crime, the trial, the darker underworld of Victorian Brighton, and the ultimate fate of Christiana Edmunds.
Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774648063
First published in 1927. Army officer Stephen Munro, who has been demobbed, decides to accept a position as a footman in order to make ends meet. Working for the elderly Lady Susan Carey at her lovely but dilapidated Sussex country home, Wintringham Hall, Stephen's first duty is to greet her eccentric guests at a weekend house party. Her bombastic nephew, who recognises Stephen from his previous life, decides that an after-dinner séance would be more entertaining than bridge. Cicely then vanishes! Lady Susan is reluctant to report what is likely a childish prank to the authorities, so Stephen and the brave Pauline Mainwaring decide to look into it. The game becomes much more serious after a suspicious demise, though. This age-appropriate winter mystery features a sprawling country home, a séance, a murder, a room locked from the inside, servants, suspects, and alibis, as well as a clever puzzle.
Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : LCCN:29016768
Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774648070
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.
Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780021488
Mr. Chitterwick investigates a complicated set of occurances in the sudden death of an elderly woman.
Author : Bill Pronzini,Marcia Muller
Publisher : Arbor House Publishing
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015012960830
"1001 Midnights is the essential reference -- and reading -- book for all aficionados of mystery, detective, and suspense fiction. It is comprised of 1001 plot summaries, author biographies, and critical evaluations of classic and important crime and espionage novels, as well as short story collections seminal to the genre. It is an indispensible volume of information and criticisim." --
Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062129765
Throwing on an almost convincing French accent, Tommy is determined to act the Great Detective Hanaud to his and Tuppence’s latest, lovely client. Miss Hargreaves has recently received a box of chocolates from nobody knows who, and, due to her dislike of chocolates, was the only one to not fall afoul of the arsenic-spiked treats. But, Miss Hargreaves is not the first recipient of such a gift; three other large country houses have received arsenic-laced chocolates. Miss Hargreaves is holding something back, and Tommy and Tuppence must take up residence at her house to discover the true culprit. But will they find out the truth in time?
Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-31
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1936363097
Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774648018
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 dead in the same manner, questions arise. Was it merely copycat suicide, or will the case lead Sheringham into a maze of murder?
Author : Sophie Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Brighton (England)
ISBN : 1781552169
"When a little boy dies from Strychnine-poisoned chocolates, Brighton is thrown into panic. When more children start being poisoned by sweets they find lying about the town and strange parcels of arsenic-laced cakes are sent to prominent residents the police step up the search for the poisoner. Who is it that is set upon his revenge on the town?"--Publisher's description.
Author : Helen Barrell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473883437
“An engrossing read . . . Her description of the ways in which forensic experiments evolved is as fascinating as the courtroom dramas they accompanied.” —Jess Kidd, The Guardian, “Best Summer Books 2018, as Picked by Writers” A surgeon and chemist at Guys Hospital in London, Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor used new techniques to search the human body for evidence that once had been unseen. As well as tracing poisons, he could identify blood on clothing and weapons, and used hair and fiber analysis to catch killers. Taylor is perhaps best remembered as an expert witness at one of Victorian England’s most infamous trials—that of William Palmer, “The Rugeley Poisoner.” But he was involved in many other intriguing cases, from a skeleton in a carpet bag to a fire that nearly destroyed two towns, and several poisonings in between. Taylor wrote widely on forensic medicine. He gave Charles Dickens a tour of his laboratory, and Wilkie Collins owned copies of his books. His work was known to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and he inspired the creation of fictional forensic detective Dr. Thorndyke. For Dorothy L. Sayers, Taylors books were the back doors to death. From crime scene to laboratory to courtroom and sometimes to the gallows, this is the world of Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor and his fatal evidence. “A must read for any lover of crime writing, criminology, and Victorian cultural history.” —Fortean Times “Totally fascinating . . . Refers to many famous and not-so-famous cases, as well as giving an insight into this clever, enthusiastic, honourable and dedicated man. Very clearly written and very enjoyable read.” —Michelle Birkby, author of The Baker Street Inquiries series