puzzle poison de berkeley anthony (20 résultats)

Paperback / softback. Etat : New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 2 working days. 312.

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 288 pages. 20.87x15.51x6.77 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Etat : New.

Etat : New.

Etat : New.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A true challenge to Golden Age fans, famous for its light-touch clues hidden through the narrative, and an ending that still resonates today. Set in the countryside of Dorset and Somerset, with lashings of international intrigue.

Etat : New.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : New.

Etat : New.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. UK hardback third impression from 1939. Red cloth has a little spine fade and there is spome spotting to pages, but a sound copy. No jacket.

Etat : Fair. NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938. 1st edition. 8vo Hardcover. 277pp. Ex-Library Copy and no dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. Writing inside. (mystery, crime, vintage) Inquire if you need further information.

Hard Cover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Douglas Sewell investigates the murder of a friend who had been poisoned with arsenic. First U.S. edition, British title "Not to be Taken." Bumped and rubbed with wear and fraying at the edges. Rear hinge cracked, front a bit loose. British title written in ink on the title page. Date in pencil on the front end paper.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A very good minus copy in the scarce original dust jacket. Handsomely bound in finely woven black cloth stamped brightly in red lettering on the front boards and on the spine. With some faint leeching of color along a few inches of the front right panel and a touch at the top of the rear panel. Name in ink on the front paste-down. In a striking blue pictorial dust jacket with wear and chipping to the top and bottom of the spine ends. With several pieces of tape on the verso along the top and bottom of the spine and along the inside front fold. .With the word "Price:" left, but the $2.00 clipped at the top of the inside front flap. Overall, a pleasant copy of this scarce Berkeley detective novel in jacket. Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893 1971) was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. His first novel, The Layton Court Mystery, was published anonymously in 1925. It introduced Roger Sheringham, the amateur detective who features in many of the author's novels including the classic Poisoned Chocolates Case. In 1930, Berkeley founded the Detection Club in London along with Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts and other established mystery writers. His 1932 novel (as "Francis Iles"), Before the Fact was adapted into the 1941 classic film Suspicion, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. Trial and Error was turned into the unusual 1941 film Flight from Destiny starring Thomas Mitchell. He was a friend of E.M. Delafield and they each dedicated a book to the other (Jill and The Wychford Poisoning Case). She gently ragged him in her Provincial Lady Goes Further by having people tell her that "Francis Iles" is really Aldous Huxley or Edith Sitwell. The opening sentence of Malice Aforethought has been described as "immortal":[7] "It was not until several weeks after he had decided to murder his wife that Doctor Bickleigh took any active steps in the matter."In 1938, he took up book reviewing for John O'London's Weekly and The Daily Telegraph, writing under his pen name Francis Iles. He also wrote for the Sunday Times in the 1940s and for the Manchester Guardian, later The Guardian, from the mid-1950s until 1970. A key figure in the development of crime fiction, he died in 1971 in St John's Wood, London. His estate was valued at £196,917 (£2,321,878 in 2023). (Wikipedia) First edition with matching dates of 1938 on the title and copyright pages; and the "First Edition" slug on the copyright page.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 252, (3) pp. Publisher's blue cloth with black lettering to front board & spine. In pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket slightly edge worn and fading to the spine. Cloth spine slightly faded. Internally clean. No ownership names. Binding firm. 8vo.

first edition ed. hardback good+ conditon in red cloth with no dust jacket. Ex-library with library markings on the front end and contents pages-.

Etat : Used - Good. First Edition. Stated 1st edition, in black cloth with red. Black stains on end papers; text generally clean in firm binding. Dust jacket states 'Sun Dial Mystery', indicating a later issue. Dust jacket clipped & nastily bound on all edges with heavy black tape; worn, with some loss to spine.

Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Second American Edition. 8vo, 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.(198 x 140 mm); pp. x + 277. Printed on cream wove paper, deckle edges, top edge red. Black cloth binding with red lettering on spine. Paper dust jacket in perfect condition. Previous owners name in ink inscribed on the inside front cover. [Cox, J. R. Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp 28-30]. The second American edition of this classic arsenic murder, DUST JACKET INTACT with striking lettering and a chilling skull-and-bone with red eyes. The book first appeared in London in 1938 with the title "Not to Be Taken" (our inventory no. 451). The first US edition was issued as part of The Crime Club Selection. Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893 1971) is today recognized as a key figure in the development of crime fiction. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. He was educated at Sherborne School and University College, Oxford. He served in the British Army during the First World War and worked as a journalist for many years, contributing to such magazines as Punch and The Humorist. His first novel was published in 1925 and it introduced the amateur detective, Robert Sheringham, who would feature in many of his novels through 1934. In 1930, Berkeley founded the Detection Club in London along with Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts, Dorothy L. Sayers, Hugh Walpole and other established mystery writers. Several of his books were adapted for the screen including "Before the Fact" adapted by Alfred Hitchcock as "Suspicion", starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine.

First edition. First U. S. edition. Pseudonym of A. B. Cox. Originally published in the U. K. as Not To Be Taken. Fine, bright copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket, bright and unfaded, with a few minor nicks to the spine panel and light wear to the extremities. A man died of what was thought to be gastric ulcers but his body was exhumed and an autopsy found that arsenic had killed him. How could this have happened? Thoughts go back to a small dinner party held some weeks before his death. Could this event been the start of his eventual death? Crime Club mystery novel.