Anthony Berkeley Cox (July 5, 1893 - 1971) was a British crime fiction author, born in Watford, England. He wrote under several names, his most famous works being under the name Francis Iles. Other pseudonyms he used included Anthony Berkeley (The Poisoned Chocolates Case) and Monmouth Platts. July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ... The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) 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. ...
The Berkeley family is unique in having an unbroken male line of descent from a Saxon ancestor before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 to the present day.
The town of Berkeley is located in the county of Gloucestershire and is situated about five miles west of Dursley and eighteen southwest of Gloucester, and northeast of Bristol.
Berkeley is the name of several places, all eventually deriving from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK, from whom the noble family of Berkeley derive their name, and for which several vessels of the British Royal Navy have been christened "HMS Berkeley Castle".
Berkeley punctiliously presented all the clues to the reader, but as Tony Medawar and Arthur Robinson point out in their introduction, he loved showing that clues could be interpreted in multiple ways and Sheringham is often wrong in his conclusions.
AnthonyBerkeley Cox, who wrote short stories and novels under more than one pen name, was the founder of London's Detective Club, whose members pledged never to conceal vital clues from the reader.
AnthonyBerkeley Cox, who died in 1971, was also the author of "Malice Afterthought," a psychological study that was made into a public television movie a decade or so ago.
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