The Complete Roger Sheringham Mysteries – 10-Volume Illustrated Set brings together the full collection of Anthony Berkeley’s iconic detective novels featuring the brilliant, arrogant, and delightfully unorthodox amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham. A cornerstone of Golden Age detective fiction, this series is renowned for its psychological insight, narrative experimentation, and sly wit. From the elegant drawing rooms of The Layton Court Mystery to the claustrophobic drama of Top Storey Murde...

The Anthony Berkeley Collection brings together seven iconic detective novels, showcasing the ingenuity, wit, and originality of one of the golden age of crime fiction's most celebrated authors. This beautifully illustrated volume includes some of Berkeley’s most renowned works, including The Poisoned Chocolates Case, The Wintringham Mystery, The Layton Court Mystery, The Silk Stocking Murders, The Piccadilly Murder, and other masterpieces. Anthony Berkeley’s mysteries stand out for their ...

Anthony Berkeley's 1939 mystery unfolds in one of fiction's most audacious settings: the floor of the British House of Commons. As the Secretary of State for India rises to introduce a contentious bill on colonial policy, he suddenly collapses and dies mid-speech. Initial assumptions point to a stroke, but a subsequent examination reveals a far more sinister cause — poisoning, carried out in full view of Parliament through an almost fantastical method involving a poisoned thorn hidden near...

William, the gardener at Layton Court, was a man of melancholy deliberation. It did not pay, William held, to rush things; especially the important things of life, such as the removal of greenfly from roses. Before action was taken, the matter should be studied, carefully and unhappily, from every possible point of view, particularly the worst. On this summer’s morning William had been gazing despondently at the roses for just over three quarters of an hour. Pretty soon now he would feel h...

As the novel opens, the sparkling and witty Roger Sheringham has been asked by the Daily Courier to visit Hampshire to report on an apparent murder in the small seaside town of Ludmouth Bay. With him he takes his cousin Anthony Walton. "Although there were more than ten years between the cousins (Roger was now thirty-six, Anthony a bare twenty-five), they had always been good friends, and that also in spite of the fact that they had scarcely a taste or a feeling in common." The two of them...

First published in 1929 and set in 1920s London in which a group of armchair detectives, who have founded the "Crimes Circle", formulate theories on a recent murder case Scotland Yard has been unable to solve. Each of the six members, including their president, Berkeley's amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, arrives at an altogether different solution as to the motive and the identity of the perpetrator, and also applies different methods of detection (basically deductive or inductive or a com...

Malice Aforethought is one of the finest and most influential crime novels of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Written by Anthony Berkeley Cox, a master of psychological suspense and one of the founders of the classic British mystery tradition, this remarkable novel overturns the conventions of the detective story from its very first pages. Instead of asking who committed the crime, Berkeley invites readers to explore a far more unsettling question: Will the murderer succeed? Set in th...

A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. Detective writer John Hillyard is entertaining a small house party at Minton Deeps Farm when a shocking accident takes place. Shortly after enacting a murder drama for their own amusement, the guests are returning to the house when Eric Scott Davies, the man who played victim, is found dead after two gunshots go off. The police suspect murder, but when Roger Sheringham is summoned from London it is not by Superintendent Hancock but by one of the guests. In a web...

MYSTERY AT LOVERS CAVE, THE by ANTHONY BERKELEY offers a concentrated, compelling experience within fiction / mystery & detective. This concise work presents carefully drawn characters and purposeful plotting that together explore themes of choice, consequence, and human connection. The prose is precise and economical, balancing vivid scenes with clear pacing to maintain narrative momentum. Ideal for readers seeking a thoughtful, accessible read, the book is well-suited to book clubs and c...

The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley is a classic mystery novel that combines clever plotting, wit, and a unique twist on the traditional detective story format. First published in 1929, this novel features Berkeley’s famous amateur detective Roger Sheringham, who, alongside the members of the Crimes Circle club, takes on the challenge of solving a perplexing murder case. The story begins with a seemingly simple crime: a box of chocolates, laced with poison, kills an unsuspecti...

Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago.Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vica...

First published in 1929, ''The Piccadilly Murder'' by Anthony Berkeley features the popular amateur sleuth, Roger Sheringham. Sheringham investigates the death of a man in a London tea shop, initially thought to be a heart attack but soon revealed to involve foul play. True to Berkeley's style, the story unfolds with wit, sharp dialogue, and a focus on psychological depth. Berkeley's hallmark is his ability to play with conventional mystery tropes, offering surprises and a sometimes unconv...