Anthony Berkeley Libri
Anthony Berkeley Cox è stato uno scrittore di romanzi polizieschi inglese, noto anche con pseudonimi come Francis Iles e A. Monmouth Platts. È stato uno dei co-fondatori del Detection Club. Le sue opere esplorano spesso le motivazioni psicologiche e gli dilemmi morali dei suoi personaggi. Il suo stile è caratterizzato da trame complesse e risoluzioni sorprendenti, che lo rendono una voce significativa nel genere.







Malice Aforethought: The Story of a Commonplace Crime
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
A philandering doctor resolves to poison his domineering wife in this classic of psychological suspense. No. 16 in the Crime Writers' Association's Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.
Malice Aforethought
- 336pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
A dark and cynically comical psychological suspense novel, with an afterword by Keating Award-winning writer Barry Forshaw.
Tightly paced and cleverly defying the conventions of the classic detective story, this 1933 novel remains a milestone of the inverted mystery subgenre.
Swept away by an admirer's charm, Lina McLaidlaw finds herself settled in a life she could never have imagined. Her husband Johnnie is feckless and irresponsible, and even though she accepts he's a murderer, Johnnie still adores her - doesn't he?
Graham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that eighth wonder of the modern world, a happy marriage. And into the middle of it there drops, like a clap of thunder, a box of chocolates.
The Wintringham Mystery
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
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!
A novel pairing dark humour and intelligent detection work, this 1932 'whowasdunin?' mystery is an example of a celebrated Golden Age author's most inventive work.
The Anatomy of Murder
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
A unique anthology for crime aficionados - seven of the world's most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.
One of the earliest psychological crime novels, back in print after more than 80 years.
