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A review by wendoxford
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
3.0
1920s London with the language, social manners and storytelling to match. Whilst this plays to the soubriquet of parlour games, adding amusement for the reader, the scope of the story is, nonetheless murder. The eponymous chocolates being the murder weapon, a group of armchair detectives all create their individual evidence/means and motive and identify the killer. What better?
Whilst being an example of classic British crime it twists the whodunnit element in a truly capricious and witty way. It is a cerebral puzzle chllenging the reader as well as the "crime club". It certainly led me up and down the garden path and back and round again again, more often than I could count.
Whilst being an example of classic British crime it twists the whodunnit element in a truly capricious and witty way. It is a cerebral puzzle chllenging the reader as well as the "crime club". It certainly led me up and down the garden path and back and round again again, more often than I could count.