Anthony Berkeley Cox was an English

England

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 crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts.

Life

Berkeley was born in Watford

Watford

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, England

England

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, and educated at Sherborne School

Sherborne School

Sherborne School is a British independent school for boys, located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England. It is one of the original member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....

 and University College London

University College London

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. After serving in the Army in World War I

World War I

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, he worked as a journalist for many years, contributing to such magazines as Punch

Punch (magazine)

Punch, or the London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 50s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration...

and The Humorist. In 1938 he took up book reviewing for John O'London's Weekly

John O'London's Weekly

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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

The Guardian

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, from the mid 1950s until 1970.

Novels about Roger Sherringham

• The Layton Court Mystery (1925)
• The Wychford Poisoning Case (1926)
• Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery [US title: The Mystery at Lovers' Cave] (1927)
• The Silk Stocking Murders (1928)
• The Poisoned Chocolates Case
  The Poisoned Chocolates Case
  The Poisoned Chocolates Case is a detective novel by Anthony Berkeley set in 1920s London in which a group of armchair detectives, who have founded the "Crimes Circle", formulate theories on a recent murder case Scotland Yard has been unable to solve...
  
  (1929)
• The Second Shot (1930)
• Top Storey Murder (1931)
• Murder in the Basement (1932)
• Jumping Jenny [US title: Dead Mrs. Stratton] (1933)
• Panic Party [US title: Mr Pidgeon's Island] (1934)
• The Roger Sheringham Stories (1994)
• The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook (2004)

Other novels

• Professor On Paws (1926)
• Mr Priestley's Problem [US title: The Amateur Crime] (1927)
• The Piccadilly Murder (1929)
• Not to Be Taken [US title: A Puzzle in Poison] (1937)
• Trial and Error (1937)
• Death in the House (1939)
• The Scoop and Behind the Screen
  The Scoop and Behind The Screen
  The Scoop & Behind The Screen are both collaborative detective serials written by members of the Detection Club which were broadcast weekly by their authors on the BBC National Programme in 1930 and 1931 with the scripts then being published in The Listener within a week after broadcast...
  
  (1983) (Originally published in The Listener (1931) and (1930), both written by members of the Detection Club
  Detection Club
  The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, Arthur Morrison, John Rhode, Jessie Rickard, Baroness Emma Orczy, R. Austin Freeman, G.D.H. Cole, Margaret Cole, E.C. Bentley, and H.C. Bailey. Anthony...
  
  )

Short stories

• Mr Simpson Goes to the Dogs (1934)
• The Policeman Only Taps Once (1936)
• Publicity Heroine (1936)

Novels

• Malice Aforethought
  Malice Aforethought
  Malice Aforethought is a murder mystery novel written by Anthony Berkeley Cox, using the pen name Francis Iles. It involves a Devon physician who slowly poisons his domineering wife so that he may be with the woman he loves. It is an early and prominent example of the "inverted detective story",...
  
  (1931)
• Before the Fact
  Before the Fact
  Before the Fact is a novel by Anthony Berkeley writing under the pen name "Francis Iles".Iles' novel is experimental in that it is not a whodunit: It does not take long to determine the identity of the villain and his motives...
  
  (1932)
• The Rattenbury Case (1936)
• As For The Woman (1939)

Short stories

• Outside the Law (1934)
• Dark Journey (1935)
• It Takes Two to Make a Hero (1943)