When Sir Simon Chandos is found poisoned in his library, with a confession in front of him and a phial of morphia tablets on the table at his side, suicide is the obvious deduction. This is a dreadful…
‘Ingenious’ Times Literary SupplementThe second of ten ‘Roger Sheringham’ detective novelsThis 2023 Spitfire Publishers edition includes a complete bibliography of Anthony Berkeley’s crime novels When …
The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, reviews and crime thrillers published under their family name. Following a rare convergence of the whole …
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. Wh…
‘Should detectives go to parties? Was it consistent with the dignity of the Yard? The inspector tossed for it—and went.’Chief Inspector Macdonald has been invited to a treasure hunt party at the house…
