![]() As Berkeley intended, I was convinced by (almost) every solution-and then suffered with its author as the next amateur sleuth shattered all their carefully considered inductions and deductions. But the facts are open to so many possible theories, one member presents two plausible scenarios. On successive evenings, each amateur presents their solution. A baffled Scotland Yard lets a circle of six amateur criminologists take a wack at an unsolved case. “It’s an odd thing,” Bertie Wooster once observed, “but however much of an aficionado one may be of mysteries in book form, when they pop up in real life, they seldom fail to give one the pip.” Acutely conscious of that gap between books and life, Anthony Berkeley wrote a mystery that more closely approximated life-and it's still considered a tour-de-force. ![]() ![]() ![]() One Murder, Six Detectives, Nine Solutions ![]()
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