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Anthony Berkeley
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)
Books in Order: 26 titles
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Before the Fact
- Jul-2025
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Unsettling and gripping, this innovative classic first published in 1932 was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Suspicion, and remains an arresting and unique work of literary artistry. Anthony Berkeley Cox, writing as Francis Iles, flips the tr...
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The Avenging Chance and Even More Stories
- Dec-2023
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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 you to bestow upon them. The Detection...
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The Wintringham Mystery
- Oct-2021
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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 ...
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Roger Sheringham And The Vane Mystery
- Dec-2010
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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...
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The Avenging Chance
- Feb-2004
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Detection in the Golden Age!!!
In 1930, Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893â€"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...
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Death in the House
- 1939
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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 ...
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Not to Be Taken
- 1938
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"The murder is by arsenic; and although the number of suspects is strictly limited the construction is so ingenious that to attain the correct solution of the problem requires all the reader's concentration; to skip is fatal." Times Literary Suppleme...
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Trial and Error
- 1937
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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...
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Jumping Jenny // Dead Mrs. Stratton
- 1933
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"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 -- ...
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Murder in the Basement
- 1932
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In this brilliantly unconventional British mystery, a buried body and a novelist’s manuscript intertwine, turning fiction into fatal fact. Literary clues and eccentric suspects collide in a tale perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. ...
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The Second Shot
- 1930
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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...
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The Piccadilly Murder
- 1929
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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 ...
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Poisoned Chocolates Case
- 1929
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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...
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The Silk Stocking Murders
- 1928
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Roger Sheringham detects a snag in a series of suspected suicides in this classic mystery from "the most brilliant of Agatha Christie's contemporaries" (Publishers Weekly). The founder of the Detection Club -- whose members included A...
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The Mystery at Lovers' Cave
- 1927
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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...
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The Wychford Poisoning Case
- 1926
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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 newspaper...
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The Layton Court Mystery
- 1925
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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 throu...