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.
Preserving a classic, this edition of a century-old mystery features a modern reformatting that enhances readability. The text has been carefully retyped and designed, ensuring that it remains accessible for contemporary audiences. Alpha Editions aims to keep this significant work alive for both present and future generations, emphasizing its historical importance while providing a fresh presentation.
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 Club pledged "never to conceal a vital clue from the reader." Anthony Berkeley's novels and short stories featuring Roger Sheringham and Inspector Moresby are among the finest examples of the fair play, challenge-to-the-reader tradition of the Golden Age. The title story in The Avenging Chance has long been considered one of the greatest formal detective stories. This book also collects all the additional cases of Sheringham and Moresby. This enlarged edition includes - for the first time- the newly discovered short stories, "The Bargee's Holiday" and "Hot Steel." Cover illustration by Gail Cross. Lost Classics design by Deborah Miller. Cover by Christina Luboski.
Tightly paced and cleverly defying the conventions of the classic detective story, this 1933 novel remains a milestone of the inverted mystery subgenre.
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 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.
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.
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. A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier s mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand Seven of the world s greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the world s most spine-tingling mysteries all of them astonishingly TRUE. This remarkable collection from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral, Ask a Policeman and Six Against the Yard back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the tastiest crime fiction."
A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer. Investigating the disappearance of a vicar's daughter in London, the popular novelist and amateur detective Roger Sheringham is shocked to discover that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a screw by her own silk stocking. Reports of similar deaths across the capital strengthen his conviction that this is no suicide cult but the work of a homicidal maniac out for vengeance - a desperate situation requiring desperate measures.Having established Roger Sheringham as a brilliant but headstrong young sleuth who frequently made mistakes, trusted the wrong people and imbibed considerable liquid refreshment, Anthony Berkeley took his controversial character into much darker territory with The Silk Stocking Murders, a sensational novel about gruesome serial killings by an apparent psychopath bent on targeting vulnerable young women.
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?
Nel 1931 Agatha Christie e altri dodici celebri scrittori di gialli, soci del cosiddetto "Detection Club", nel quartier generale di Kingly Street a Londra, decisero di collaborare alla stesura di una detective story unica. Ogni partecipante doveva mettersi all'opera, continuando la storia che un altro membro del Club aveva precedentemente imbastito. Nessuno sapeva cosa ne sarebbe venuto fuori, né quale soluzione al giallo avessero in mente gli altri. Questa la storia che scrissero... Nella tranquilla cittadina sul mare in cui vive, l'ispettore Rudge non ha spesso occasione di trattare casi di omicidio. Ma quando un vecchio marinaio trascina a riva una barca che trasporta un cadavere da poco pugnalato al petto, l'ispettore non può perdere tempo e fa partire immediatamente le indagini. La vittima sembra essere l'ammiraglio Penistone che, in pensione ormai da qualche anno, viveva da poco più di un mese in una villa nella campagna circostante, insieme alla nipote Elma e a tre domestici. Ma la vicenda si rivela fin da subito molto più intricata di quanto l'ispettore pensasse: troppe le persone coinvolte e quasi nessuna disposta a parlare. Il proprietario della barca sta evidentemente nascondendo qualcosa, la nipote della vittima è scomparsa dal paese e l'identità stessa dell'uomo assassinato è tutto fuorché certa.
This collection features 42 crime stories by authors such as Margery Allingham, G.K. Chesterton, Edgar Wallace and L.P. Hartley.
A dark and cynically comical psychological suspense novel, with an afterword by Keating Award-winning writer Barry Forshaw.
Sei "Armchair-Detektive" si interrogano su chi abbia avvelenato le praline che costarono la vita a Mrs. Bendix. Il capo ispettore Moresby di Scotland Yard non riesce a progredire nelle sue indagini. Anche i sei membri del "Kriminalzirkel" si sforzano di trovare una soluzione. Alla fine, ognuno di loro propone una diversa e convincente spiegazione. Quale sarà quella giusta?
Die vergifteten Pralinen ist ein Werk des Meisterautors Anthony Berkeley, das eine provokante Frage aufwirft: Ist es möglich, dass in einem Kriminalroman nur eine einzige Wahrheit existiert? Berkeley beantwortet diese Frage mit dem Fall der vergifteten Pralinen. Beginnend mit der traditionellen Struktur der Frage "Wer ist der Täter?", beleuchtet das Buch die Möglichkeit von mehrfachen Wahrheiten, die Vorliebe des Autors für bestimmte Detektive und die Bedeutung psychologischer Faktoren. Es öffnet zudem den Weg für die Evolution des Genres, indem es sich von mechanischen Tricks löst. Ein Vorfall ereignet sich, als die junge und wohlhabende Mrs. Bendix nach dem Verzehr von Schokolade stirbt. Die polizeilichen Ermittlungen ergeben, dass ihr Tod kein einfacher Unfall war und sie nicht einmal das ursprüngliche Mordziel war. Um den Fall zu lösen, der ohne Hinweise die Polizei zur Aufgabe zwang, versammeln sich prominente Kriminologen aus London. Wer ist der Täter?
Případ záhadné vraždy herečky Jeane Norwoodové. Kdy byla zabita, a který ze dvou mužů, kteří zabíjeli, byl vrah a který „zabil“ již jen mrtvé tělo?
Když Daily Courier vyšle svého novináře Rogera Sheringhama pracovně do Hampshiru, je to práce přesně podle jeho gusta. Pod útesy v Ludmouth Bay bylo nalezeno tělo ženy a místí policie případ uzavřela jako nešťastnou náhodu. Přítomnost inspektora Moresbyho ze Scotland Yardu však svědčí spíše o opaku. Sheringham sám nedokáže odolat a vydává se na dráhu detektiva amatéra. Události ho vedou do jedné slepé uličky za druhou...
