Background
Anthony Berkeley Cox was born in 1893 in Watford, and educated at Sherborne School and University College London.
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University College London. Sherborne School.
Career
He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. After serving in the British Army in World War I, he worked as a journalist for many years, contributing to such magazines as Punch and The Humorist. His first novel, The Layton Court Mystery, was published anonymously in 1925.
lieutenant introduced Roger Sheringham, the amateur detective who features in many of the author"s novels including the classic Poisoned Chocolates Case.
In 1930, Berkeley founded the legendary Detection Club in London along with Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts and other established mystery writers. His 1932 novel (as "Francis Iles"), Before the Fact was adapted into the 1941 classic film Suspicion, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine.
Trial and Error was turned into the unusual 1941 film Flight From Destiny. In 1938, he took up book reviewing for John O"London"s Weekly and the Daily Telegraph, writing under his pen name Francis Iles.
He also wrote for the Sunday Times in the 1940s and for the Manchester Guardian, later The Guardian, from the mid-1950s until 1970.
A key figure in the development of crime fiction, he died in 1971. Published as "?"
The Layton Court Mystery (Herbert Jenkins, 1925)
Published as the author of "The Layton Court mystery"
The Wychford Poisoning Case (Collins, 1926)
Published as Anthony Berkeley
Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery (1927)
The Silk Stocking Murders (1928)
The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929)
The Second Shot (1930)
Top Storey Murder (1931)
Murder in the Basement (1932)
Jumping Jenny (1933)
Panic Party (1934)
The Roger Sheringham Stories (1994). Limited edition to 95 copies
The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham"s Casebook (2004).
2nd edition with an additional story, Crippen & Landru, 2015.
The books listed thus far are the ones featuring amateur detective Roger Sheringham. = Other novels Professor On Paws (1926)
Mr Priestley"s Problem (1927)
The Piccadilly Murder (1929)
Not to Be Taken (1937)
Trial and Error (1937)
Death in the House (1939)
= Uncollected short stories "Mr Simpson Goes to the Dogs" (1934)
"The Policeman Only Taps Once" (1936)
"Publicity Heroine"" (1936)
Published as Francis Iles
= Novels Malice Aforethought (1931)
Before the Fact (1932)
The Rattenbury Case (1936)
As Foreign The Woman (1939)
= Short stories "Outside the Law" (1934)
"Dark Journey" (1935)
"lieutenant Takes Two to Make a Hero"" (1943)
Published as A. Monmouth Platts
Cicely Disappears (1927).
Membership
The Floating Admiral (1931) (written in collaboration with eleven members of the Detection Club)
The Scoop and Behind the Screen (1983) (Originally published in The Listener (1931) and (1930), both written by members of the Detection Club).
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United Kingdom