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Mr Priestley’s Problem

Anthony Berkeley
3.97/5 (54 ratings)
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The much-revered crime writer Anthony Berkeley’s murder mystery back in print for the first time in over 70 years‘The plot is ingenious’ The Observer‘An excellent mystery story’ The Spectator‘A master of the final twist’ Agatha Christie‘The feelings and actions of a respectable member of society who found that he had committed a murder… hilariously funny’ New York TimesMr Matthew Priestley, a rather staid thirty-something Englishman, is on the way home from a lavish dinner at a fancy London restaurant. He hears a female voice over his shoulder, chastising him for being late for their appointment. He turns and greets the gaze of Laura Howard, a charming and beautiful woman of London’s high-society. He apologizes and takes her to a bar in Piccadilly Circus for coffee. Apparently she has mistaken him for someone else, but who cares? This is the new Mr Priestley, daring and impulsive. His enthusiasm almost evaporates when he learns Laura thinks he’s a burglar for hire named Mullins who has agreed to steal some indiscreet letters that an old flame is threatening to blackmail her with. Thus, a case of mistaken identity leads to a murder and begins a train of events that baffles Scotland Yard’s Superintendent Peters and Mr Priestley’s friends. Or does it?About the AuthorAnthony 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‘There never was another writer of detective stories who managed to make his red herrings smell so good’ The Observer‘Anthony Berkeley is the supreme master not of the ‘twist’ but of the ‘double-twist’. He has long been in the very front rank of detective writers’ The Sunday Times‘Few detective story writers have been as influential as Anthony Berkeley’Washington Post‘The most brilliant of Agatha Christie’s contemporaries’Publishers Weekly‘Anthony Berkeley specialises in honest clues and a natural atmosphere’New York Herald-Tribune‘Crime fiction’s Jekyll and Hyde – suave and scintillating one minute, sardonic and sinister the n
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Mr Priestley’s Problem

Anthony Berkeley
3.97/5 (54 ratings)
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The much-revered crime writer Anthony Berkeley’s murder mystery back in print for the first time in over 70 years‘The plot is ingenious’ The Observer‘An excellent mystery story’ The Spectator‘A master of the final twist’ Agatha Christie‘The feelings and actions of a respectable member of society who found that he had committed a murder… hilariously funny’ New York TimesMr Matthew Priestley, a rather staid thirty-something Englishman, is on the way home from a lavish dinner at a fancy London restaurant. He hears a female voice over his shoulder, chastising him for being late for their appointment. He turns and greets the gaze of Laura Howard, a charming and beautiful woman of London’s high-society. He apologizes and takes her to a bar in Piccadilly Circus for coffee. Apparently she has mistaken him for someone else, but who cares? This is the new Mr Priestley, daring and impulsive. His enthusiasm almost evaporates when he learns Laura thinks he’s a burglar for hire named Mullins who has agreed to steal some indiscreet letters that an old flame is threatening to blackmail her with. Thus, a case of mistaken identity leads to a murder and begins a train of events that baffles Scotland Yard’s Superintendent Peters and Mr Priestley’s friends. Or does it?About the AuthorAnthony 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‘There never was another writer of detective stories who managed to make his red herrings smell so good’ The Observer‘Anthony Berkeley is the supreme master not of the ‘twist’ but of the ‘double-twist’. He has long been in the very front rank of detective writers’ The Sunday Times‘Few detective story writers have been as influential as Anthony Berkeley’Washington Post‘The most brilliant of Agatha Christie’s contemporaries’Publishers Weekly‘Anthony Berkeley specialises in honest clues and a natural atmosphere’New York Herald-Tribune‘Crime fiction’s Jekyll and Hyde – suave and scintillating one minute, sardonic and sinister the n
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