Bendix in a low-cut evening gown (do you sense a theme?). I like the look of Pocket 814, which you’ll see elsewhere in this post, featuring Mrs. In other words, one of the first paperbacks ever. The first paperback edition is Penguin #36, dating from 1936, originally published with a dust wrapper you may find it significant that it predates the first paperback published in North America by three years. Bendix in a low-cut evening gown) I am unable to say reliably whether it predates the Doubleday Crime Club edition of 1929. Publication Data: The first edition of this novel is probably the Collins (UK) edition from 1929 (the jacket features Mrs. Ambrose Chitterwick, mild-mannered criminology expert this is the only novel to feature both.
His principal detective as Berkeley is Roger Sheringham, silly-ass amateur detective, but a couple of novels feature Mr. He was one of the founding members of the Detection Club.
His novel as by Francis Iles, Before the Fact, was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1941 as Suspicion, with Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. His biography in Wikipedia is found here I have elsewhere reviewed his first novel, The Layton Court Mystery, originally published as by “?”. The Poisoned Chocolates Case, by Anthony Boucher (1929)Īuthor: Anthony Berkeley was the pen name of Anthony Berkeley Cox, an extremely talented and inventive mystery writer who also wrote as Francis Iles and other names.
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