Anthony Berkeley

Un clásico indiscutible de la novela policiaca que todo aficionado al género debe atesorar en sus estanterías.El caso de los bombones envenenados, publicada en 1929 por Anthony Berkeley, es una obra de ingenieria y de inteligencia, una autentica exhibicion de habilidad para construir rompecabezas y para conducir al lector por donde menos se lo espera. Supone toda una reflexion acerca del genero detectivesco y, al mismo tiempo, una apasionante aventura intelectual en busca de la verdad. ¿O quiza solo se trata de una broma? Todo comenzo el dia en que sir Eustace Pennefather, un conocido mujeriego, recibe una caja de bombones en su club de Londres. Poco aficionado al chocolate, se la entrega por casualidad a un conocido del club, cuya mujer es una apasionada de estos dulces. La pobre señora muere al poco tiempo, victima de una intoxicacion por nitrobenceno. El asesinato tiene desconcertado a todo Scotland Yard. El presidente del Circulo del Crimen, un excentrico club compuesto por seis aficionados a la criminologia, propone a sus miembros el reto de esbozar cada uno de ellos una teoria que esclarezca el crimen. Los resultados de sus investigaciones seran expuestos por turnos en las ponencias mas sorprendentes que el lector pueda imaginar. El final no dejara a nadie indiferente.Al texto original se han añadido, a modo de apendices, dos capitulos mas salidos de las plumas de dos grandes maestros del policial: nada menos que Christianna Brand y Martin Edwards. Ambos recogieron el testigo de Berkeley y fabularon sendas hipotesis alternativas a las propuestas por el autor original. ¿Con cual de todas se quedara el lector?Esta edicion incluye, ademas, un estudio introductorio a cargo de Jose Ignacio Escribano y Noemi Calabuig.

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 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 newspapers.Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspoken young novelist, is convinced that there is 'too much evidence' against Mrs Bentley and sets out to prove her innocence. Credited as the book that first introduced psychology to the detective novel, The Wychford Poisoning Case was based on a notorious real-life murder inquiry.

A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer. Investigating the disappearance of a vicars 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.

One of the earliest psychological crime novels. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husbands medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the newspapers. Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspoken young novelist, is convinced that there is too much evidence against Mrs Bentley and sets out to prove her innocence. Credited as the book that first introduced psychology to the detective novel, The Wychford Poisoning Case was based on a notorious real-life murder inquiry. Written by Anthony Berkeley, a founder of the celebrated Detection Club who also found fame under the pen-name Francis Iles, the story saw the return of Roger Sheringham, the Golden Ages breeziest and booziest detective.

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 couldnt solve! Stephen Munro, a demobbed army officer, reconciles himself to taking a job as a footman to make ends meet. Employed at Wintringham Hall, the delightful but decaying Sussex country residence of the elderly Lady Susan Carey, his first task entails welcoming her eccentric guests to a weekend house-party, at which her bombastic nephew who recognises Stephen from his former life decides that an after-dinner seance would be more entertaining than bridge. Then Cicely disappears! With Lady Susan reluctant to call the police about what is presumably a childish prank, Stephen and the plucky Pauline Mainwaring take it upon themselves to investigate. But then a suspicious death turns the game into an altogether more serious affair This classic winter mystery incorporates all the trappings of the Golden Age a rambling country house, a seance, a murder, a room locked on the inside, with servants, suspects and alibis, a romance and an ingenious puzzle. First published as a 30-part newspaper serial in 1926 the year The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was published, The Wintringham Mystery was written by Anthony Berkeley, founder of the famous Detection Club. Also known as Cicely Disappears, the Daily Mirror ran the story as a competition with a prize of 500 (equivalent to 30,000 today) for anyone who guessed the solution correctly. Nobody did even Agatha Christie entered and couldnt solve it. Can you?

Otro apasionante caso del detective Roger Sheringham. Miembro, junto a Dorothy L. Sayers o Agatha Christie, del selecto club de escritores de misterio de los a#os treinta, Anthony Berkeley aport# al g#nero hondura y refinamiento psicol#gicos y cre# un detective at#pico e inolvidable: Roger Sheringham, novelista de #xito y detective amateur a sus horas. En esta ocasi#n, Sheringham se ve envuelto en un estremecedor y complejo caso que une el suicidio de la hija de una corista, la desaparici#n de la hija de un p#rroco de pueblo y la muerte de tres chicas que aparecen ahorcadas con medias de seda. Con su sagacidad psicol#gica y su original m#todo deductivo, Sheringham acabar# desvelando el mapa de los asesinatos que se esconden tras el misterio.

El caso m#s famoso del detective Roger Sheringham: un verdadero puzle. Seguimos con nuestra serie dedicada al detective Sheringham, en esta ocasi#n con uno de sus m#s c#lebres casos. En el Londres de los a#os veinte, seis miembros del Club del Crimen se re#nen para tratar de resolver un caso que ha dejado perplejos a los polic#as de New Scotland Yard: la muerte de la Sra. Joan Bendix por envenenamiento de nitrobenceno. Por turnos, cada detective ofrece su particular teor#a de un asesinato aparentemente irresoluble...

El primer caso del gran detective ingl#s Roger Sheringham. Victor Stanworth, propietario de Layton Court, invita a unos amigos a pasar unos d#as con #l, pero una ma#ana aparece muerto en la biblioteca. Se desconoce si se ha suicidado o ha sido asesinado. Uno de los invitados es Roger Sheringham -el gran detective de Berkeley-, quien se encarga de investigar el caso. Anthony Berkeley nos muestra en esta novela el gusto, la maestr#a y la habilidad para urdir una obra de alto entretenimiento, fruto de la #poca m#s feliz del g#nero.