Cox was educated at Sherborne School and University College, Oxford. The family inheritance included two estates in Watford: Monmouth House and The Platts. Monmouth Platts.īorn in Watford, Hertfordshire on 5 July 1893, he was the son of Alfred Edward Cox, a doctor who invented a kind of X-ray machine that allowed shrapnel to be detected in wounded patients, and Sybil Cox (née Iles), who claimed descent from the 17th-century Earl of Monmouth and a smuggler named Francis Iles. Doubleday The Crime Club (USA), 1930)Ībout the Author: Anthony Berkeley, whose real name was Anthony Berkeley Cox, was a popular British satirical journalist, crime and mystery writer, and literary critic who wrote under the pseudonyms Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley, and A. The Piccadilly Murder has been reviewed, among others, by Jon at Golden Age of Detection Wiki, Martin Edwards at ‘Do You Write Under Your Own Name?’, Rob Kitchin at The View from the Blue House, Kate Jackson at Cross-examining Crime, thegreencpasule at The Green Capsule, and Nick Fuller at The Grandest Game in the World.
Since it might be only a matter of taste, I would suggest to judge for yourselves.
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It is an excellent novel and I have enjoyed it a lot, but not as much as I enjoyed reading Jumpy Jenny or even Trial and Error. And even if I can’t say that it has disappointed me, it hasn’t really enthused me. The expectations I had set on this book were too high, perhaps by the reading of some of the reviews that are attached further below. It seems an open and shut case, if it weren’t because only a few pages have elapsed from a novel that exceeds the 200. It is also the case that he has enough grounds to kill his aunt before she disinherits him, as she had announced, if he insisted in getting married without her consent. Chitterwick identifies the red-haired man who turns out to be none other than Major Sinclair, Miss Sinclair’s nephew and only heir. Therefore, when it is determined that the elderly lady was poisoned, Mr Chitterwick does not hesitate to call his acquaintance Chief Inspector Moresby and informs him of what he had seen. Chitterwick had seen her chatting with a rather large man with curly red hair, who dropped something into the old lady’s cup just before leaving. Initially the police has doubts whether it is suicide or murder. Chitterwick witnesses the death of an elderly lady, Miss Sinclair. Chitterwick’s aunt must be an old lady of quite exceptional forcefulness and will.”Īt a given time, Mr. Chitterwick with a rod of strong iron, for no female could live in the same house with such mild masculinity and not do so moreover, by the law of averages, as applied to the houses of aunts in Chiswick, it must be clear that Mr. From the same clue the deduction also follows that Mr. Chitterwick not only live with his aunt at Chiswick, but to most purposes for his aunt at Chiswick too. Chitterwick’s nature, it is easy to deduce that Mr. With the remarkable mildness which is obvious a feature of Mr. Ambrose Chitterwick is seen to be a red-faced, somewhat globular, early middle-aged gentleman of independent means, with gold-rimmed pince-nez on a very short nose, less hair than he used to have and an extremely ancient aunt at Chiswick. Chitterwick whom we have met before in The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) and who will appear again in Trial and Error (1937).
Thus, the author takes advantage to introduce us to Mr.
When the story begins he has arrived unusually early and, not without certain difficulty, he has found an empty table from which he prepares himself to practice his favourite pastime, people-watching and speculating by their appearance alone. Ambrose Chitterwick is in the habit of occasionally visiting the lounge of the Piccadilly Palace Hotel.
As Mr Chitterwick investigates, doubts begin to surface, until more evidence arises to hint at a more complicated set of occurrences… But then friends and relatives of the accused appeal to Mr Chitterwick, claiming him incapable of such a crime. He had seen something being put into the lady’s coffee cup, after all. Synopsis: Once Mr Chitterwick had given his evidence, thus clarifying that the elderly lady’s death was murder and not suicide, it appeared a straightforward case. Originally published in the UK by Collins in 1929 and in the US by Doubleday in 1930. Desplazarse hacia abajo para acceder a la versión en español
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