1951 Pocket reissue

one of SMB founder Bill Farley’s Top Five Mysteries of all time. Sir Eustace is a cad of the first water, with a specialty in other men’s wives, and the list of people who might want to do him in could fill a London phone book. But which of them actually sent the chocolates with their nasty hidden payload? Scotland Yard is baffled. Enter the Crime Circle, a group of society intellectuals with a shared conviction in their ability to succeed where the police have failed. Eventually, each member will produce a tightly reasoned solution to the Case of the Poisoned Chocolates, but each of those solutions will identify a different murderer. First published in 1929, this is both a classic of the golden age of mystery fiction, and one of the great puzzle-mysteries of all time.

May 1952 Signet paperback

cover art by Lu Kimmel

oil on board, 17-1/2 x 14-1/4 inches (44.5 x 36.2 cm)
Signed center left side: Kimmel

May 1952 Signet paperback, first printing

5th novel, a stand-alone thriller

better image than previously posted

[updated with original art 11/5/25]