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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1925
  • Latest Book:
    October 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Roger Sheringham

1 - The Layton Court Mystery (1925)
2 - The Wychford Poisoning Case (1926)
3 - The Mystery at Lovers' Cave (1927)
4 - The Silk Stocking Murders (1928)
5 - Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929)
6 - The Second Shot (1930)
7 - Top Story Murder (1931)
8 - Murder in the Basement (1932)
9 - Jumping Jenny // Dead Mrs. Stratton (1933)
10 - Mr. Pidgeon's Island (1934)

Book List in Order: 22 titles



  • 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 ...



  • A classic British crime novel from the Golden Age - perhaps the first ever psychological crime novel - by the founder of the Detection Club, marking 50 years since the death of the author.Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is over...



  • As the novel opens, the sparkling and witty Roger Sheringham has been asked by the Daily Courier to visit Hampshire to report on an apparent murder in the small seaside town of Ludmouth Bay. With him he takes his cousin Anthony Walton. "Although ther...



  • A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. 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 hang...




  • Sir Eustace was surprised when the box of chocolates arrived at his club. It was an ideal gift for a man of taste, but he didn't have a sweet tooth. So he gave them to George Bendix, who gave them to his wife, who gobbled them down. They were perfect...



  • 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 h...








  • "[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....




  • "A witty and tricky plot and a genuinely shocking conclusion." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewA mystery dinner theater party thrown by local author with a taste “for rather gruesome humor” requires guests come dressed as infamous killers -- ...





  • Non-descript, upstanding Mr Todhunter is told that he has only months to live. He decides to commit a murder for the good of mankind. Finding a worthy victim proves far from easy, and there is a false start before he settles on and dispatches his tar...



  • A classic case of the apparent suicide that proves to be murder. John Waterhouse's death certificate gives cause of death as gastric ulcers, but when his brother insists on the body being exhumed so that a post mortem can be carried out, it proves th...



  • Lord Wellacombe, Secretary of State for India, dies whilst giving a speech to introduce a new bill on the floor of the House of Commons. His untimely demise looks like a stroke, but is it mere coincidence that a threat on his life had been made? The ...










  • Detection in the Golden Age!!!

    In 1930, Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893"1971) founded London’s Detection Club, whose members swore that their "detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them, using those wits which it may please...



  • A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. When the Daily Courier sends Roger Sheringham to Hampshire, it's a job after his own heart. The body of a woman has been found at the bottom of the cliffs at Ludmouth Bay, and despite a verdict of accidental death, the loc...



  • Originally serialized in 1926, this classic English countryside mystery contains a puzzle that even acclaimed crime author Agatha Christie couldn’t solve. A secluded country manor in the dead of winter seems like the perfect place to hold a house p...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anthony Berkeley has published 22 books.

Anthony Berkeley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wintringham Mystery, was published in October 2021.

The first book by Anthony Berkeley, The Layton Court Mystery, was published in January 1925.

Yes. Anthony Berkeley has 1 series.