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Anthony Berkeley

The Complete Roger Sheringham Mysteries – 10-Volume Illustrated Set brings together the full collection of Anthony Berkeley’s iconic detective novels featuring the brilliant, arrogant, and delightfully unorthodox amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham. A cornerstone of Golden Age detective fiction, this series is renowned for its psychological insight, narrative experimentation, and sly wit. From the elegant drawing rooms of The Layton Court Mystery to the claustrophobic drama of Top Storey Murde...

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The noted amateur detective Roger Sheringham has formed his own private club of criminologists. As a challenge, he proposes that they individually attempt to solve a murder that has baffled Scotland Yard: the death of wealthy businessman Graham Bendix's wife after he presented her a box of poisoned chocolates.Rather than converging on a single criminal, each of the six members of the Crimes Circle arrives at a completely different solution to the same murder.Anthony Berkele...

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The Anthony Berkeley Collection brings together seven iconic detective novels, showcasing the ingenuity, wit, and originality of one of the golden age of crime fiction's most celebrated authors. This beautifully illustrated volume includes some of Berkeley’s most renowned works, including The Poisoned Chocolates Case, The Wintringham Mystery, The Layton Court Mystery, The Silk Stocking Murders, The Piccadilly Murder, and other masterpieces. Anthony Berkeley’s mysteries stand out for their ...

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Step into the brilliant and somewhat irreverent world of Roger Sheringham with The Collection Roger Sheringham Mysteries – 6‑Volume Illustrated Set. This sumptuous illustrated edition gathers six of Anthony Berkeley’s most cunning and atmospheric detective novels, featuring his gentleman sleuth Roger Sheringham. Each volume is a self‑contained puzzle, showcasing Berkeley’s wit, ingenuity, and mastery of the Golden Age mystery. The journey begins with The Layton Court Mystery (1925), in whi...

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The Second Shot by Anthony Berkeley is a clever and engaging detective novel featuring the witty and astute amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham. Known for his sharp intellect and calm reasoning, Sheringham returns to unravel a complex case that challenges even his keen mind. The story begins with a puzzling murder: a man is shot, but the circumstances surrounding the crime are mysterious and suspicious. When a second shooting occurs, the tension escalates, and the local police find themselves ...

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Anthony Berkeley

A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. Detective writer John Hillyard is entertaining a small house party at Minton Deeps Farm when a shocking accident takes place. Shortly after enacting a murder drama for their own amusement, the guests are returning to the house when Eric Scott Davies, the man who played victim, is found dead after two gunshots go off. The police suspect murder, but when Roger Sheringham is summoned from London it is not by Superintendent Hancock but by one of the guests. In a web...

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Anthony Berkeley's 1939 mystery unfolds in one of fiction's most audacious settings: the floor of the British House of Commons. As the Secretary of State for India rises to introduce a contentious bill on colonial policy, he suddenly collapses and dies mid-speech. Initial assumptions point to a stroke, but a subsequent examination reveals a far more sinister cause — poisoning, carried out in full view of Parliament through an almost fantastical method involving a poisoned thorn hidden near...

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Anthony Berkeley

First published in 1929 and set in 1920s London in which a group of armchair detectives, who have founded the "Crimes Circle", formulate theories on a recent murder case Scotland Yard has been unable to solve. Each of the six members, including their president, Berkeley's amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, arrives at an altogether different solution as to the motive and the identity of the perpetrator, and also applies different methods of detection (basically deductive or inductive or a com...

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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 dead in the same manner, questions arise. ...

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"Detection and crime at its wittiest—all Berkeley's stories are amusing, intriguing and he is a master of the final twist." —Agatha ChristieIn this classic Golden Age British mystery, Anthony Berkeley—the renowned author of the Roger Sheringham series—delivers a tense political thriller that starts with a shocking assassination . . .The House of Commons has been breached in the most unthinkable manner. In the middle of his speech introducing a controversial...

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William, the gardener at Layton Court, was a man of melancholy deliberation.It did not pay, William held, to rush things; especially the important things of life, such as the removal of greenfly from roses. Before action was taken, the matter should be studied, carefully and unhappily, from every possible point of view, particularly the worst.On this summer’s morning William had been gazing despondently at the roses for just over three quarters of an hour. Pretty soon now he ...

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Anthony Berkeley

First published in 1929, ''The Piccadilly Murder'' by Anthony Berkeley features the popular amateur sleuth, Roger Sheringham. Sheringham investigates the death of a man in a London tea shop, initially thought to be a heart attack but soon revealed to involve foul play. True to Berkeley's style, the story unfolds with wit, sharp dialogue, and a focus on psychological depth. Berkeley's hallmark is his ability to play with conventional mystery tropes, offering surprises and a sometimes unconv...