The Wychford Poisoning Case (Detective Club Crime Classics) - Hardcover

Berkeley, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0008216428 ISBN 13: 9780008216429

Publisher: Collins Crime Club, 2017

Synopsis

One of the earliest psychological crime novels, back in print after more than 80 years.

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. 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 Age’s breeziest – and booziest – detective.

About this title

Review:

‘Anthony Berkeley is the supreme master not of the “twist” but of the “double-twist”.’ Milward Kennedy in the Sunday Times

About the Author:

ANTHONY BERKELEY was a pen name of Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893-1971), one of the most important figures in the history of British crime fiction. Many of his novels feature the amateur criminologist Roger Sheringham. As well as being the author of many classic detective stories, Berkeley was the founder of the prestigious Detection Club for the finest crime writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Crime Club
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0008216428
• ISBN 13: 9780008216429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240