Anthony Berkeley
2 books
- If you like your detectives cocky and frequently wrong, Roger Sheringham blusters through this locked-library puzzle building theories that keep collapsing under him, which is half the fun. It's light and chatty rather than grim, and the solution has a nice sting to it.
- You’ll enjoy the way Roger Sheringham and the Crime Circle keep rebuilding the same poisoned-chocolates mystery, each solution making the clues look different. It’s a deliberately cerebral, slightly theatrical puzzle, more interested in detection as argument than in suspense, so it suits you if you like testing theories alongside the characters.