Anthony Berkeley

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1925
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Roger Sheringham

1 - The Layton Court Mystery (1925)
2 - The Wychford Poisoning Case (1926)
3 - The Mystery at Lovers' Cave (1927)
4 - The Silk Stocking Murders (1928)
5 - Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929)
6 - The Second Shot (1930)
7 - Top Story Murder (1931)
8 - Murder in the Basement (1932)
9 - Jumping Jenny // Dead Mrs. Stratton (1933)
10 - Mr. Pidgeon's Island (1934)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • The Layton Court Mystery

    Roger Sheringham - 1

    The renowned British crime writer’s classic locked-room Golden Age mystery that introduced amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham.   A party at Layton Court, the country house of Victor Stanworth, is disrupted when the host is found shot through the ...

  • The Wychford Poisoning Case

    Roger Sheringham - 2

    First published in 1926. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband’s medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the newspaper...

  • The Mystery at Lovers' Cave

    Roger Sheringham - 3

    As the novel opens, the sparkling and witty Roger Sheringham has been asked by the Daily Courier to visit Hampshire to report on an apparent murder in the small seaside town of Ludmouth Bay. With him he takes his cousin Anthony Walton. "Although ther...

  • The Silk Stocking Murders

    Roger Sheringham - 4

    First published in 1928, public domain in the US and Canada. A Roger Sheringham mystery from Golden Age author Anthony Berkeley When the daughter of a country parson goes missing in London, Roger Sheringham receives a letter from her father pleading ...

  • The Piccadilly Murder

  • Poisoned Chocolates Case

    Roger Sheringham - 5

    Sir Eustace was surprised when the box of chocolates arrived at his club. It was an ideal gift for a man of taste, but he didn't have a sweet tooth. So he gave them to George Bendix, who gave them to his wife, who gobbled them down. They were perfect...

  • The Second Shot

    Roger Sheringham - 6

    A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. Detective writer John Hillyard is entertaining a small house party at Minton Deeps Farm when a shocking accident takes place. Shortly after enacting a murder drama for their own amusement, the guests are returning to the h...

  • The Floating Admiral

  • Top Story Murder

    Roger Sheringham - 7



  • Murder in the Basement

    Roger Sheringham - 8

    "[Anthony Berkeley’s] tale of petty rivalries, affairs, and revenge plots is so deliciously entertaining. [Murder in the Basement is] a pioneering example of the “whowasdunin” that, like that corpse in the basement, richly deserves exhumation....

  • Ask a Policeman

  • Jumping Jenny // Dead Mrs. Stratton

    Roger Sheringham - 9

    "A witty and tricky plot and a genuinely shocking conclusion." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewA mystery dinner theater party thrown by local author with a taste “for rather gruesome humor” requires guests come dressed as infamous killers -- ...

  • Mr. Pidgeon's Island

    Roger Sheringham - 10

  • Six Against Scotland Yard

  • Trial and Error

    Non-descript, upstanding Mr Todhunter is told that he has only months to live. He decides to commit a murder for the good of mankind. Finding a worthy victim proves far from easy, and there is a false start before he settles on and dispatches his tar...

  • Not to Be Taken

    A classic case of the apparent suicide that proves to be murder. John Waterhouse's death certificate gives cause of death as gastric ulcers, but when his brother insists on the body being exhumed so that a post mortem can be carried out, it proves th...

  • Death in the House

    Lord Wellacombe, Secretary of State for India, dies whilst giving a speech to introduce a new bill on the floor of the House of Commons. His untimely demise looks like a stroke, but is it mere coincidence that a threat on his life had been made? The ...

  • Dead Mrs Stratton

  • Panic Party



  • The Avenging Chance

    Detection in the Golden Age!!!

    In 1930, Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893"1971) founded London’s Detection Club, whose members swore that their "detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them, using those wits which it may please...

  • Roger Sheringham And The Vane Mystery

    A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. When the Daily Courier sends Roger Sheringham to Hampshire, it's a job after his own heart. The body of a woman has been found at the bottom of the cliffs at Ludmouth Bay, and despite a verdict of accidental death, the loc...

  • The Wintringham Mystery

    First published in 1927. Army officer Stephen Munro, who has been demobbed, decides to accept a position as a footman in order to make ends meet. Working for the elderly Lady Susan Carey at her lovely but dilapidated Sussex country home, Wintringham ...

  • The Avenging Chance and Even More Stories

    In 1930, Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893-1971) founded London's Detection Club, whose members swore that their detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them, using those wits which it may please you to bestow upon them. The Detection...

  • Before the Fact

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Anthony Berkeley has published 24 books.

The next book by Anthony Berkeley, Before the Fact, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Anthony Berkeley, The Layton Court Mystery, was published in January 1925.

Yes. Anthony Berkeley has 1 series.
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