- Paperback: 238 pages
- Publisher: House of Stratus; New edition edition (31 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755102088
- ISBN-13: 978-0755102082
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,622,975 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Anthony Berkeley is the supreme master not of the `twist' but of the `double-twist'." --The Sunday Times
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Gentleman sleuth Roger Sheringham is at a fancy dress party where the theme is murderers and victims. The fun takes a sinister turn however when a real victim is discovered in the ballroom. Sheringham finds himself in dire straits when the police declare him to be their chief suspect and for the first time in his career he has to work against them to save his own neck. AUTHBIO: A journalist as well as a novelist, Anthony Berkeley was a founding member of the Detection Club and one of crime fiction's greatest innovators. He was one of the first to predict the development of the 'psychological' crime novel and he sometimes wrote under the pseudonym of Francis Iles. He wrote twenty-four novels, ten of which feature his amateur detective, Roger Sheringham.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Nowhere is Roger Sheringham’s fallibility seen to better effect than in this lively and witty tale that rivals Waugh for fertility of humour. Mrs. Stratton, a splendidly egomaniacal, megalomaniacal and exhibitionist bitch, is murdered onstage, before the reader’s very eyes. Roger, suspecting from the absence of a chair that the ostensible suicide is in fact murder, covers up the evidence and draws erroneous conclusions, not the least brilliant of which is that by which he exonerates the character the reader knows to be the murderer, a stroke of ingenuity rivalled only by the suggestion that Sheringham is the culprit! Throughout, the reader is in the happy position of knowing more than the detective, and so being able to laugh at him—until the end, when he kicks himself good and hard.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
An old-fashioned mystery
11 Mar 2004
Format:Hardcover
Roger Sheringham goes to a house party with his friend, Robert Stratton. Both men are interested in criminology, and Robert has the idea of making the big party a "murder party" with everyone coming dressed as a murderer or a victim. He even imports a gallows, complete with three hanging figures, two men and one woman, a "Jumping Jenny" from the title. But the party is ruined when the overexcited, hysterical, vindictive wife of Robert's brother, David, is found hanging in place of one of the dummies. And she's really dead.
This one had me guessing. It must be part of an old series, and I felt a slight disadvantage at not knowing more about these characters. Roger is the main detective (private, not police) but I don't really know about him.
The book was written in the 1930's and reflects some of the attitudes of the day. The author, Anthony Berkeley, is one of the founding members of the Detection Club in London, along with Dorothy L. Sayers and others. For some reason, his books have faded from circulation while hers are still fashionable. But if you like "Golden Age" books, you would probably enjoy this one, even if it is a little dated.
1 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Nothing Redeeming
10 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
This book is not only dated, but cloddish in its treatment of the characters, and with an awful plot to boot. Chesterton somewhere remarked that the common person may prefer detective stories to high literature but is intelligent enough to know the good detective story from the bad. Dorothy Sayers survives, and Berkeley is (hopefully) forgotten.
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