Amateur detective Roger Sheringham investigates his most famous case. When Joan Bendix makes a bet with her husband for a box of chocolates, no one imagines that winning will cost her her life. The seven she eats poison her and the two her husband eats nearly kill him. The Sheringham Crime Circle find the unusual case baffling, but eventually come up with some very interesting theories - which they then proceed to disprove one by one.
"Een inspecteur van Scotland Yard legt voor de grap een moordprobleem voor aan een clubje amateurs, dat zich bezighoudt met het oplossen van misdaden, maar het spelletje wordt ernst als langzaam de waarheid aan het licht komt."
"Sir Eustace is a cad of the first water, with a specialty in other men's wives, and the list of people who might want to do him in could fill a London phone book. But which of them actually sent the chocolates with their nasty hidden payload? Scotland Yard is baffled. Enter the Crime Circle, a group of society intellectuals with a shared conviction in their ability to succeed where the police have failed. Eventually, each member will produce a tightly reasoned solution to the Case of the Poisoned Chocolates, but each of those solutions will identify a different murderer. First published in 1929, this is both a classic of the golden age of mystery fiction, and one of the great puzzle-mysteries of all time."
"Detektivka anglického autora, kterou W. Somerset Maugham řadil k nejlepším. Upoutá čtenáře nejen případem obratně osnované vraždy otrávenými bonbóny, ale i nabídnutím několika řešení, z nichž každé se zdá na první pohled."
"Amateur detective Roger Sheringham investigates his most famous case. When Joan Bendix makes a bet with her husband for a box of chocolates, no one imagines that winning will cost her her life. The seven she eats poison her and the two her husband eats nearly kill him. The Sheringham Crime Circle find the unusual case baffling, but eventually come up with some very interesting theories - which they then proceed to disprove one by one."@en
"A society woman dies and her husband nearly dies from eating chocolates taken from a specimen box, sent by the makers to a baronet, a fellow clubman of the husband' s."@en
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