![]() ![]() Can the Crime Club help? The dead person is Joan Bendix – poisoned, as the title suggests, by chocolates. The police have given up the case as lost. I did have to make notes about who they all were, because he does a slightly unhelpful thing of telling you about them before he tells you their names – but it includes a dramatist, a detective novelist, an avant-garde writer, a solicitor, and a sort of timorous nobody. Roger Sheringham, who apparently appears in other Berkeley novels, has assembled a group of people to help him solve a murder. It’s a great premise for a detective novel. Quite a lot of people have recommended The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) by Anthony Berkeley as one of the best ones, and I’ve had it for yonks. ![]() Or, more precisely, piled high on top of a bookcase. F or #ReadIndies month, I had to pick up one of the many unread British Library Crime Classics I have on my shelf. ![]()
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