The Poisoned Chocolates Case

In this, the best-known of Anthony Berkeley's novels, amateur detective Roger Sheringham investigates his most famous case. When Joan Bendix makes a bet with her husband for a box of chocolates, no one imagines that winning will cost Joan her life. The seven she eats poison her and the two her husband eats nearly kill him. The Sheringham Crime Circle finds the unusual case baffling, but its members eventually come up with some very interesting theories - which they then proceed to disprove one by one. Due to a series of false clues, the killer appears to be out of reach...