THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE

by Anthony Berkeley

$1,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, Inc., 1929. First American Edition. Attractive copy of this Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title and Berkeley's fifth novel featuring detective Roger Sherringham. A Crime Club offers to crack a case which has stumped Scotland Yard, involving an accidental death by poisoned chocolates intended for a member of the aristocracy. Hubin, p.32; Pronzini & Muller,

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