The Wychford Poisoning Case

A classic British crime novel from the Golden Age - perhaps the first ever psychological crime novel - by the founder of the Detection Club, marking 50 years since the death of the author.
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 newspapers. Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspoken young novelist, is convinced that there is 'too much evidence' against Mrs Bentley and sets out to prove her innocence.
Credited as the book that first introduced psychology to the detective novel, The Wychford Poisoning Case was based on a notorious real-life murder inquiry. Written by Anthony Berkeley, a founder of the celebrated Detection Club who also found fame under the pen-name 'Francis Iles', the story saw the return of Roger Sheringham, the Golden Age's breeziest - and booziest - detective.

About the author

Anthony Berkeley, Introduction by Tony Medawar

Summary

A classic British crime novel from the Golden Age – perhaps the first ever psychological crime novel – by the founder of the Detection Club, marking 50 years since the death of the author.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Berkeley
• Assisted by: Tony Medawar (Introduction), Medawar Tony (Introduction)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780008333881
• ISBN: 978-0-00-833388-1
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Classic crime, Berkshire, FICTION / Thrillers / Legal, Crime & mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Classic fiction: general and literary