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{PDF EPUB} the Layton Court Mystery by Anthony Berkeley the Layton Court Mystery by Anthony Berkeley Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Layton Court Mystery by Anthony Berkeley The Layton Court Mystery by Anthony Berkeley. This page lists novels and short story collections Anthony Berkeley and collaborative novels that include a contribution by Anthony Berkeley. Note that the first two novels in the list were originally published anonymously and only credited to Anthony Berkeley in later editions. Anthony Berkeley was one of the pen names used by Anthony Berkeley Cox. Cox also published books using the names A.B. Cox, Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts. For a full list of books by Anthony Berkeley Cox, including all pen names, see the Anthony Berkeley Cox page. Cover images are, where possible, of the first UK edition and a recent paperback or digital edition. The Layton Court Mystery. Later editions credited to Anthony Berkeley. A Roger Sheringham novel. The Wychford Poisoning Case: An Essay in Criminology. By the author of 'The Layton Court Mystery' Later editions credited to Anthony Berkeley. A Roger Sheringham novel. Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery. Anthony Berkeley. Subsequently published by Collins as The Vane Mystery. Published in the US as The Mystery at Lovers� Cave. A Roger Sheringham novel. The Silk Stocking Murders. Anthony Berkeley. A Roger Sheringham novel. The Poisoned Chocolates Case. Anthony Berkeley. A Roger Sheringham novel. The Piccadilly Murder. Anthony Berkeley. The Second Shot. Anthony Berkeley. A Roger Sheringham novel. Top Storey Murder. Anthony Berkeley. Published in the US as Top Story Murder. Mrs Boyd (caretaker) Mr Augustus Weller Mr and Mrs Kingcross Mr and Mrs Barrington Braybrook Miss Evadne Delamere The Ennismore Smiths Mrs Pilchard Miss Barnett. The Floating Admiral. Members Of The Detection Club. A collaborative novel with contributions by Agatha Christie, , Dorothy L. Sayers, Clemence Dane, Anthony Berkeley. G. K. Chesterton, Freeman Wills Crofts, G. D. H. Cole, Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Ronald Knox, Canon Victor Whitechurch, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, and Edgar Jepson. Murder in the Basement. Anthony Berkeley. A Roger Sheringham novel. Jumping Jenny. Anthony Berkeley. Published in the US as Dead Mrs. Stratton. A Roger Sheringham novel. Ask a Policeman. Member of the Detection Club. A collaborative novel with contributions by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, John Rhode, Helen Simpson, and Milward Kennedy. Lord Peter Wimsey contributes to the investigation. Panic Party. Anthony Berkeley. Published in the US as Mr. Pidgeon�s Island. Six Against The Yard. Members Of The Detection Club. A collection of six stories - one each by Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers and Russell Thorndike. Trial and Error. Anthony Berkeley. Not To Be Taken. Anthony Berkeley. Published in the US as A Puzzle in Poison. Death in the House. Anthony Berkeley. The Scoop and Behind the Screen. Members Of The Detection Club. Two detective serials that were written by various members of the Detection Club for weekly radio broadcasts on the BBC in 1930 and 1931. The scripts were originally published in instalments in the Listener magazine shortly after the broadcasts. The book brings together the two complete scripts. The contributing authors were Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, E.C. Bentley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Clemence Dane, Ronald Knox, and Hugh Walpole. The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham�s Casebook. Anthony Berkeley. Crippen & Landru. Roger Sheringham short stories. An enlarged paperback edition was published in 2015. Layton Court Mystery by Berkeley Anthony. Paperback. Condition: New. Brand New! This item is printed on demand. The Layton Court Mystery (Paperback) Anthony Berkeley. Published by Independently Published, United States, 2021. New - Softcover Condition: New. Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. - The much-revered crime writer Anthony Berkeley's first-ever crime novel. - 'A continuously readable and exciting guessing game' NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE - 'A mystery that really mystifies and a detective who really detects' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Victor Stanworth, a genial old man of sixty, apparently without a care in the world, is entertaining a party of friends at his country house, Layton Court. One morning he is found shot in the library. Was it suicide or murder? Roger Sheringham, one of the guests, determines to solve the mystery. He sets about it as he might do in real life. He is not one of those hawk-eyed, tight-lipped detectives who pursue their inexorable and silent way to the very heart of things. He makes a mistake or two occasionally, but he does not conceal any of the evidence and the reader has the same data to go upon as the detective, and is carried breathlessly through to the end. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anthony Berkeley Cox was a best-selling and much-admired English crime writer who wrote under a number of pen- names, including Anthony Berkeley, Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts. Born in Watford in 1893 he studied at Oxford University and worked as a journalist after serving as an officer in the First World War. He created Roger Sheringham for his first crime novel, THE LAYTON COURT MYSTERY, published in 1925. Amateur detective Sheringham, was loquacious, conceited, occasionally downright offensive, and something of a man-about-town with contacts in all the right places. However, infallibility was not one of Sheringham's virtues. His most famous outing was in THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE (1929) which sold over one million copies, received rapturous reviews and is regarded today as a classic of the Golden Age of Crime. In the same year it was published, Cox created 'The Detection Club', the illustrious dining club of detective story writers. He wrote 19 crime novels between 1925 and 1939 before returning to journalism, writing for THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE SUNDAY TIMES and between 1950-70 THE GUARDIAN. He died in 1971. PRAISE FOR ANTHONY BERKELEY: 'All his stories are amusing, intriguing, and he is a master of the final twist, the surprise denouement' AGATHA CHRISTIE; 'There never was another writer of detective stories who managed to make his red herrings smell so good' THE OBSERVER; 'The most brilliant of Agatha Christie's contemporaries' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. The Layton Court Mystery. Anthony Berkeley. Published by Herbert Jenkins, 1925. Used - Hardcover Condition: Fair. Condition: Fair. 1925. Second Printing. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated green cloth. Title page and binding do not state author. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and pastedown along with heavy foxing and tanning to text block edges. Cracking to both hinges and guttering causing book to be shaky as well. Boards have visible rubbing with some areas of bleaching to front. White specs to spine. Moderate crushing to spine ends and heavy bumping to corners. Heavy tanning to spine and board edges, with some colour rubbed away to cloth on joints. The Layton Court Mystery by Anthony Berkeley. Genial and wealthy Victor Stanworth is hosting a house party at Layton Court. Lady Stanworth, his sister-in-law, acts as his hostess, and his secretary, Major Jefferson, is there to keep things organized. In attendance are Mrs Shannon, her daughter Barbara, Mrs Plant, Alexander Grierson and his friend Roger Sheringham. When Stanworth is found dead in the library, behind locked doors and windows, it looks like a case of suicide. Yet Roger Sheringham is unconvinced and decides to prove that it was murder. With Alec as his Watson, Roger is bound and determined to solve the case. This was another re-read for me (I have resolved to not buy any books between now and Christmas…yah, let’s see how long that lasts), and I remember reading it several years ago, and liking it, but didn’t remembering much of the plot until I got into it again. This was Anthony Berkeley’s first novel, published (anonymously) in 1925. In the dedication, Berkeley states that his goal was to write a mystery that laid out for the reader “every scrap of evidence just as it is discovered” and he has done so very well. This is definitely a fair play mystery. He also sought to create a plausible detective, and so introduced the character of Roger Sheringham, a novelist who casts himself as detective in the style of Sherlock Holmes. Unlike Holmes, while Sheringham does uncover a great deal of evidence, his means of interpreting it relies more on his imagination than deductive reasoning. Often fitting the evidence to his latest theory, he goes down a number of wrong alleys, always convinced that he is correct. But while his theories may fall short of the mark, he’s like a dog with a bone, refusing to give up, and somehow he gets to the truth. In Sheringham he has succeeded by crafting a character that is not to be taken too seriously; fallible, yet brimming with conceit regarding his talents as a detective. ‘Not much so far as actual hard-and-fast-evidence goes, I’m afraid,’ he concluded, ‘but we greater detectives are above evidence.’” Unfortunately, while the story is populated with all of the stock characters of a country house mystery, Berkeley does little to flesh them out, we never learn much about them, and so they remain rather two-dimensional throughout. Also, other that the rather amusing “John Prince” episode, the plot involves little outside of conversations between Sheringham and Grierson, with Sheringham espousing his latest assumptions, followed by Grierson trying to rein his excessive enthusiasm and pointing out the flaws in his theories. That being said, I still enjoyed Layton Court immensely. Having Sheringham lay out all of the clues, and then seeing him jump to several inevitably wrong conclusions, was highly entertaining.
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