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The Layton Court Mystery

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504066219
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Layton Court Mystery written by Anthony Berkeley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned British crime writer’s classic locked-room Golden Age mystery that introduced amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham. A party at Layton Court, the country house of Victor Stanworth, is disrupted when the host is found shot through the forehead in his own library, a suicide as far as the police are concerned. After all, the gun is found in his hand, a note has been left, and the room is locked from the inside. But one of the guests, author Roger Sheringham, has his doubts. The bullet wound is not positioned where it could have been easily self-inflicted. With a house full of partygoers and servants, suspects abound. It will take Sheringham’s sharp wit and fearless investigating to deduce who brought the festivities to a fatal end. The founder of the Detection Club in London, along with Agatha Christie and other writers, Anthony Berkeley wrote numerous novels, sometimes using the pseudonyms Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts. The Layton Court Mystery is his first book in the Roger Sheringham Cases, which includes The Poisoned Chocolates Case and The Silk Stocking Murders, among other titles. “Certainly, Berkeley’s short and fascinating career deserves to be saluted. For fans of the classic English crime novel, his books remain enjoyable to this day. Nobody has ever done ironic ingenuity better than Anthony Berkeley.” —Mystery Scene “He was one of the most influential crime novelists of the 1920s and 1930s, but has languished somewhat in obscurity since. A troubled, dark, incredibly innovative writer . . .” —Shedunnit

The Layton Court Mystery

Author : Anthony Berkeley Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Layton Court Mystery written by Anthony Berkeley Cox and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936363094
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook written by Anthony Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wychford Poisoning Case

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781963956542
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Wychford Poisoning Case written by Anthony Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berkeley, like his contemporaries Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, "were fascinated by murder in real life," according to Martin Edwards, who makes another observation. True crime tales provided them with inspiration and motivation. (four) The Wychford Poisoning Case drew inspiration from the case of Florence Maybrick, who faced accusations of poisoning her husband, James Maybrick, and ultimately proved guilty of the crime. Both Edwards and Tony Medawar have mentioned this fact. Sheringham also alludes to numerous other true crime cases involving Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, Frederick Seddon, Hawley Harvey Crippen, William Palmer, Edward William Pritchard, George Henry Lamson, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Catherine Wilson, Maria van der Linden-Swanenburg (referred to in the novel as "Van de Leyden"), Marie Jeanneret (a Swiss nurse found guilty of murdering six persons and attempting to murder two others by poison), Steinie Morrison, Oscar Slater, Constance Kent, Alfred John Monson, and Madeleine Smith. The Wychford Poisoning Case was dedicated to fellow crime writer E. M. Delafield.

The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008470111
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears written by Anthony Berkeley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn’t solve!

A Beautiful Place to Die

Author : Malla Nunn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416586202
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book A Beautiful Place to Die written by Malla Nunn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screenwriter Nunn draws on her true-life experience growing up in Africa to create this darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa. Detective Emmanuel Cooper is caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make for dangerous times.

Testimony

Author : Scott Turow
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455553522
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Testimony written by Scott Turow and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR), returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance. At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire Roma refugee camp vanished. Now for the first time, a witness has stepped forward: Ferko Rincic claims that armed men marched the camp's Gypsy residents to a cave in the middle of the night--and then with a hand grenade set off an avalanche, burying 400 people alive. Only Ferko survived. Boom's task is to examine Ferko's claims and determinine who might have massacred the Roma. His investigation takes him from the International Criminal Court's base in Holland to the cities and villages of Bosnia and secret meetings in Washington, DC, as Boom sorts through a host of suspects, ranging from Serb paramilitaries, to organized crime gangs, to the US government itself, while also maneuvering among the alliances and treacheries of those connected to the case: Layton Merriwell, a disgraced US major general desperate to salvage his reputation; Sergeant Major Atilla Doby,a vital cog in American military operations near the camp at the time of the Roma's disappearance; Laza Kajevic, the brutal former leader of the Bosnian Serbs; Esma Czarni, Ferko's alluring barrister; and of course, Ferko himself, on whose testimony the entire case rests-and who may know more than he's telling. A master of the legal thriller, Scott Turow has returned with his most irresistibly confounding and satisfying novel yet.

The Wychford Poisoning Case ... By the Author of "The Layton Court Mystery" [i.e. Anthony Berkeley Cox.].

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Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Wychford Poisoning Case ... By the Author of "The Layton Court Mystery" [i.e. Anthony Berkeley Cox.]. written by Anthony Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Silk Stocking Murders

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008333898
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book The Silk Stocking Murders written by Anthony Berkeley and published by Collins. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer. Investigating the disappearance of a vicar's daughter in London, the popular novelist and amateur detective Roger Sheringham is shocked to discover that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a screw by her own silk stocking. Reports of similar deaths across the capital strengthen his conviction that this is no suicide cult but the work of a homicidal maniac out for vengeance - a desperate situation requiring desperate measures. Having established Roger Sheringham as a brilliant but headstrong young sleuth who frequently made mistakes, trusted the wrong people and imbibed considerable liquid refreshment, Anthony Berkeley took his controversial character into much darker territory with The Silk Stocking Murders, a sensational novel about gruesome serial killings by an apparent psychopath bent on targeting vulnerable young women.

Murder in the Basement

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Basement written by Anthony Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Streetball Crew Book One Sasquatch in the Paint (Streetball Crew, Book One)

Author : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Publisher : Disney-Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9781423192541
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Streetball Crew Book One Sasquatch in the Paint (Streetball Crew, Book One) written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighth-grader Theo Rollins' growth spurt has Coach Mandrake trying to transform him into a basketball star, but training time is hurting the science club's chances of winning the "Aca-lympics," and being accused of stealing could mean Theo is off both teams.

Panic Party

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : House of Stratus Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780755102105
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Panic Party written by Anthony Berkeley and published by House of Stratus Limited. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr Pidgeon is the unlikely and lucky owner of a large yacht and a desert island. Gentleman sleuth Roger Sheringham is one of the members of the party Pidgeon invites for a cruise. When the ship and its crew return to port without them, the party are marooned for a fortnight on the private island. Sheringham is shocked to discover Pidgeon has organised the whole thing as an experiment. He has brought them together to enact a bizarre murder and detection game. But then the madness starts and tragedy strikes.

Trial and Error

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Trial and Error written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Layton's Legacy

Author : Layton Art Collection
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780982381014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Layton's Legacy written by Layton Art Collection and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Layton (1827-1919) was among the very first art collectors in America to fund a purpose-built civic art gallery for the public's use and enjoyment. Second only to the 1874 Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the 1888 Layton Art Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, presented a new model for the single-patron art museum in America, one significantly different from the established museums of Boston and New York. Frederick Layton and his British architect George Audsley developed a new vision for a more intimate art museum experience. They drew upon their knowledge of English precedents to create a refined, single-story, top-lit, urban gallery that would influence the development of the American art museum well into the twentieth century. Layton's Legacy draws on a recently discovered archive of Layton family papers, travel journals, and vintage photographs and on five years of extensive archival research in the United States and Great Britain. John C. Eastberg traces the trajectory of the collection's development from its English origins through its grand European acquisitions, Gilded Age art auctions in New York, Progressive-era renovations, postwar deaccessions, and demolition of the original gallery, all leading to a new era of curatorial innovation and major American art acquisitions at the end of the twentieth century. Eric Vogel looks more closely at the architectural history of the original Layton Art Gallery and its influence on the continuing lineage of the single-patron art museum. Layton's Legacy also includes the first fully illustrated documentation of the entire 125-year history of the Layton Art Collection, demonstrating its formative place in the development of the American art museum. It includes object entries from more than twenty scholars of American and European painting, furniture, and decorative art and features the works of artists Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Frederick Church, Thomas Cole, Bastien Lepage, William Bourguereau, James Tissot, Frederic Leighton, and Alma Tadema, among many others. Eminent scholars of nineteenth-century art, Dianne Macleod and Giles Waterfield, contribute forewords. Gold Medal, Best Nonfiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards

Grandpa Charlie

Author : Douglas Layton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996266727
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Grandpa Charlie written by Douglas Layton and published by . This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandpa Charlie is no typical "gangster novel" but a compelling journey into the corruption that permeates many of our government institutions and into the life of one of the most captivating men of our times - James "Whitey" Bulger.

The Piccadilly Murder

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780021485
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Piccadilly Murder written by Anthony Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Chitterwick investigates a complicated set of occurances in the sudden death of an elderly woman.

Elusion Aforethought

Author : Malcolm J. Turnbull
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879727161
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Elusion Aforethought written by Malcolm J. Turnbull and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not content with Cox's (1893-1971) hero status among a small cult following, Australian historian Turnbull provides significant new information about the English writer of crime detective fiction and introduces him to a wider academic sphere. He also describes Cox's other genres, such as humor and satire, and investigates his preoccupation with anonymity and use of pseudonyms. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR