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This was just okay for me. The setup of a club of sleuths being handed a case by Scotland Yard to figure out seemed like just the thing I'd enjoy. Alas, the format of the story with each sleuth giving recitation on who they suspected and the method they used to reach their conclusion wore very quickly. The first two were interesting, the middle three were a real slog and the last was a very good finish. There was a good bit of wit along the way in the form of jibs and jibes from the club members
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This is more of a 3.5 than a 3, it's the last chapter of the book where the detective stands up in front of a drawing room full of suspects and waxes lyrical. Only this time it's a murder club and there are six sleuths trying to out do each other. My dad will like this one more than I did :)
What knocks of a star is the god awful fan fiction chapters at the end of the kindle version. The story was done, it was perfectly well done and acceptable. did not need other authors, no matter how well kno ...more
What knocks of a star is the god awful fan fiction chapters at the end of the kindle version. The story was done, it was perfectly well done and acceptable. did not need other authors, no matter how well kno ...more
This is one of the classic detective stories of the Golden Age of British crime fiction. A box of chocolates causes the death of Mrs Joan Bendix and puts her husband in hospital for a short time. No one is ever charged with the crime. The Crimes Circle - a group headed by detective story writer Roger Sheringham - decides to see if they can offer a possible solution. The book consists of the possible solutions and how the available evidence supports them.
Christianna Brand wrote another possible s ...more
Christianna Brand wrote another possible s ...more
Review of the audiobook narrated by Gordon Griffin.
My first Anthony Berkeley book but certainly not my last. Berkeley is amazingly clever, and I certainly could not pick out the supposed solution. However, the one I thought was best was written by Christianna Brand for the 1979 reissue of this 1929 book.
If you like clever, fair-play mysteries, this is a must-read from the Golden Age.
My first Anthony Berkeley book but certainly not my last. Berkeley is amazingly clever, and I certainly could not pick out the supposed solution. However, the one I thought was best was written by Christianna Brand for the 1979 reissue of this 1929 book.
If you like clever, fair-play mysteries, this is a must-read from the Golden Age.
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I did think this book had a slow start but once it picked up I was enjoying it. Roger Sheringham has formed a Crime Circle, consisting of a number of people who are in some way connected to crime. Crime writers and dramatists and a lawyer, These people have been informed about a case of poisoning that the investigating police have been unable to solve. Each given the facts of the case and how the police had got on with their efforts to solve the case, they are tasked with taking a week to do the
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I've just finished this and found it very entertaining. It's the first time of reading Anthony Berkeley and I shall definitely be reading more.
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I also enjoyed the epilogue by Martin Edwards. ...more
Dec 12, 2017
Tracey
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A fantastic golden age mystery. Each member of the Crimes Circle discuses their solution for a poisoning. With a very enjoyable additional epilogue by Martin Edwards.
I enjoyed this one enough to immediately buy the other two by Berkeley I found on kindle. Loved the humor.
Oct 18, 2020
Laura Hannaway
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Dec 25, 2020
Karen
marked it as to-read
Jun 05, 2023
Jazzy Lemon
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it was amazing
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