Publisher: British Library Publishing ISBN: 9780712356534 Number of pages: 224 Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm You may also be interested in. Each is more convincing than the last, slowly filling in the pieces of the puzzle, until the dazzling conclusion. The evidence is laid before the Circle and the members take it in turn to offer a solution. Chief Inspector Moresby calls on Roger Sheringham and his Crimes Circle - six amateur but intrepid detectives - to consider the case.
The Problem: Sir Eustace receives a sample box of Masons chocolate liquors in the mail. It focuses almost entirely on summation, but manages within its artificial boundaries to accomplish everything we want in detective fiction. Chief Inspector Moresby recounts a murder case to the assembled members of the Crimes Circle, organized by Sheringham, who then in turn produce alternative solutions.
The police investigation rapidly reaches a dead end. Anthony Berkeley The Poisoned Chocolates Case Paperback Novemby Anthony Berkeley (Author) 4 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover from 350.00 1 Collectible from 350.00 Paperback 15.19 3 Used from 15. Anthony Berkeley’s The Poisoned Chocolates Case is an absolute delight. The plot of the short story and the novel concerns a murder accomplished through a lethal box of candy, delivered to the victim as though it were a gift. And into the middle of it there drops, like a clap of thunder, a box of chocolates.Joan Bendix is killed by a poisoned box of liqueur chocolates that cannot have been intended for her to eat. 'All his stories are amusing, intriguing, and he is a master of the final twist' - Agatha Christie'One of the most stunning trick stories in the history of detective fiction' - Julian SymonsGraham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that eighth wonder of the modern world, a happy marriage.
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