The Poisoned Chocolates Case
10 best books like The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Anthony Berkeley): Murder Underground, The Hog's Back Mystery, Mystery in the Channel, Death in the Tunnel, Verdict of Twelve, Trent's Last Case, The Murder of My Aunt, Smallbone Deceased, The 12:30 from Croydon, The Beast Must Die
| Author | Mavis Doriel Hay |
| ISBN | 0712357254 |
If you were suddenly to be found murdered, would your friends have theories about who had done the deed?
Well, when the wealthy and unpleasant Miss Pongleton meets her end on the stairs of Belsize Park underground station in 'Murder Underground', her housemates — though not particularly...
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
‘As pretty a piece of work as Inspector French has done … On the level of Mr Crofts’ very best; which is saying something.’ – Daily Telegraph
Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog’s Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When...
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
| ISBN | 0712356517 |
Mystery in the Channel is a classic crime novel with a strikingly modern sub-text. The story begins with a shocking discovery. The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the water, and on closer inspection, sees a body lying on the deck. When members...
| Author | Miles Burton |
| ISBN | 1464205817 |
On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wilfred has been shot dead, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Suicide...
| Author | Raymond Postgate |
| ISBN | 0897331982 |
This was a delightful read. It's hard not to use the word "delightful" when describing this old fashioned British courtroom drama. Verdict of Twelve is a republication of a book originally released in 1940. It starts with the backstory of the twelve jurors selected for a murder trial, describes the...
| Author | E.C. Bentley |
| ISBN | 0755103270 |
On Wall Street, the mere mention of the name Sigsbee Manderson is enough to send a stock soaring—or bring it tumbling back to earth. Feared but not loved, Manderson has no one to mourn him when the gardener at his British country estate finds him facedown in the dirt, a bullet buried in his brain. There...
| Author | Richard Hull |
| ISBN | 1558820388 |
In this darkly comic, quite immoral masterwork, Edward is an effete, poor young man who has something in store for his only relative, his wealthy aunt. First published in 1934, this classic mystery is considered a masterpiece of the inverted detective story, in which it is known "whodunit." The question...
| Author | Michael Gilbert |
| ISBN | 0460024051 |
I've read a couple of other books by Michael Gilbert and have enjoyed them all so far. Smallbone Deceased ranks up there with Petrella at Q as my favorites of his. Smallbone is a perfect little mystery. It's billed as an Inspector Hazelrigg mystery and, indeed, the good Inspector does play a prominent...
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
| ISBN | 1842323776 |
We begin with a body. Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris. Rather less orthodox is the ensuing flashback in which we live with the killer at every stage, from the first thoughts of murder to the strains and stresses of living...
| Author | Nicholas Blake |
| ISBN | 0330373218 |
The book starts off with the diary of Frank, who addressing the reader tells us that he is going to kill the man who ran over his son. The diary stops at the point where Frank is supposed to kill the person responsible but he fails and the yet the other person turns up dead anyways and Nigel Strangeways is invited...
