Anthony Berkeley (Author of The Poisoned Chocolates Case)

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Anthony Berkeley

Born

in Watford, The United Kingdom

July 05, 1893

Died

March 09, 1971

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Anthony Berkeley Cox was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley Cox, and A. Monmouth Platts. One of the founders of The Detection Club
Cox was born in Watford and was educated at Sherborne School and University College London.

He served in the Army in World War I and thereafter worked as a journalist, contributing a series of humourous sketches to the magazine 'Punch'. These were later published collectively (1925) under the Anthony Berkeley pseudonym as 'Jugged Journalism' and the book was followed by a series of minor comic novels such as 'Brenda Entertains' (1925), 'The Family Witch' (1925) and 'The Professor on Paws' (1926).

It was also in 1925 when he published, anonymously to b ...more

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	The Poisoned Chocolates Case 3.78 avg rating — 3,533 ratings — published 1929 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley, Tony Medawar (Introduction) 3.65 avg rating — 2,712 ratings — published 1927 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder In The Basement (Roger Sheringham Cases, #8) 3.56 avg rating — 823 ratings — published 1932	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9) 3.76 avg rating — 722 ratings — published 1933 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Layton Court Mystery (Roger Sheringham Cases, #1) 3.48 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 1925 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trial and Error (Ambrose Chitterwick #2) 3.74 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 1937 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery 3.90 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 1927 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silk Stocking Murders (Roger Sheringham Cases, #4) 3.45 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 1928 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wychford Poisoning Case (Roger Sheringham Cases, #2) 3.24 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1926 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not to Be Taken (Black Dagger Crime Series) 3.82 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1938 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“She was a mild, inoffensive, well-meaning creature, with a face not unlike that of an amiable horse, and she spent most of her life striving so hard to do the right thing and invariably doing the wrong one.”
― Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears

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“For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity.”
― Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery

tags: companionable-silence

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“Real life is one anti-climax after another.”
― Anthony Berkeley, The Wychford Poisoning Case

tags: roger-sheringham

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