The poisoned chocolates case
1929 • 252 pages

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Sir Eustace is a cad of the first water, with a specialty in other men?s wives, and the list of people who might want to do him in could fill a London phone book. But which of them actually sent the chocolates with their nasty hidden payload? Scotland Yard is baffled. Enter the Crime Circle, a group of society intellectuals with a shared conviction in their ability to succeed where the police have failed. Eventually, each member will produce a tightly reasoned solution to the Case of the Poisoned Chocolates, but each of those solutions will identify a different murderer. First published in 1929, this is both a classic of the golden age of mystery fiction, and one of the great puzzle-mysteries of all time.

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#5 in Roger Sheringham Cases

Roger Sheringham Cases is a 10-book series with 10 primary works first released in 1925 with contributions by Anthony Berkeley, Tony Medawar, and Arthur Robinson.

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The Layton Court Mystery
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The Wychford Poisoning Case
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The Silk Stocking Murders
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The poisoned chocolates case
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The Second Shot
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Top Storey Murder
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Murder In The Basement
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Panic Party
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The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook

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Golden Age British mystery. Talky

November 24, 2018

This was an enjoyable variation on the cosy mystery story. (My edition has two further recent conclusions at the end, which I found unnecessary).

February 13, 2019

Just lost interest 

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