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Title: Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley ISBN: 0-440-16844-9 Publisher: Bantam Books (Mm) Pub. Date: 01 November, 1983 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $2.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A clever new device for an old-fashioned kind of mystery
Comment: It's British, it's amateurs solving a murder, the clues are all in front of you. What's better? And then on top of it all, this book gives us a crime club at which the members present their individual results and critique each other (with some dry wit at the expense of the genre). Great stuff.
Rating: 5
Summary: What a delight!
Comment: I read this book after seeing it mentioned over and over again on best-mysteries-of-all-time lists.
Berkeley's novel is built around a fictitious, famed detection club (no doubt based on a real club that had authors such as Christie, Sayers and Dickson Carr as members). The members of this illustrious club set out to solve a mystery revolving around a poisoned box of chocolates. Every sleuth turns in a seemingly plausible solution, each topping the previous person's explanation. Until the end, that is, when a less-than-likely member offers the most surprising (and probably correct) interpretation of the facts.
Not only is this a real puzzle of a book, but it gently and self-consciously tweaks the fair-play traditions and cliches of the ultra-British "Golden Age."
It's very clever, very funny, and reads like a shot. What else do you want from a mystery?
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Title: Murder in the Basement by Anthony Berkeley ISBN: 0755102142 Publisher: House of Stratus Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery by Anthony Berkeley ISBN: 0755102169 Publisher: House of Stratus Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer ISBN: 0755108868 Publisher: House of Stratus Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: No Wind of Blame by Georgette Heyer ISBN: 0755108930 Publisher: House of Stratus Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Guardian of the Horizon (PETERS, ELIZABETH) by Elizabeth Peters ISBN: 0066214718 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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