Category: whodunnit

1953 Dell reissue – cover art by Len Oehmen

1942 Dodd Mead hardcover

1953 Dell reissue

cover art by Len Oehmen

better image than previously posted

3rd in the witty and sophisticated series with amateur sleuths Jeff and Haila Troy. “Kelley Roos” was a pseudonym for the husband-and-wife writing team of Audrey Kelley Roos and William Roos

1957 Perma reissue – cover art by James Meese

1956 Harper hardcover, re-titled by Collins for the UK hardcover that same year as Death in Grease Paint

first of his two mysteries with Howie Rook, middle-aged, over-weight former newspaperman and draws on the author’s own experience as a clown with the Ringling Brothers Circus

cover art by James Meese

October 02, 2013

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.