Not to Be Taken (Paperback)

Anthony Berkeley

ISBN 10: 0712355421 / ISBN 13: 9780712355421

Published by British Library Publishing, London, 2025

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Paperback. John Waterhouse has died of some gastric complication. Exhumed at his brother's request, it transpires that he has been killed by arsenical poisoning, though nobody in the sleepy village of Anneypenny seems to have had a reason to do him ill. Rumours abound of Nazi intrigue and military skullduggery, but whatever the motive, the truth remains; this was murder.Originally serialised as a competition with a prize for the readers that could answer Berkeley's direct challenge of 'who was the poisoner?', Not to Be Taken remains one of the most fiendish exercises in subtle cluework and detection from the Golden Age of Crime.'.now we have Not to Be Taken, a compact and fascinating essay in the art of home detection.' Torquemada in The Observer, 1938'The murder is by arsenic; and although the number of suspects is strictly limited the construction is so ingenious that to attain the correct solution of the problem requires all the reader's concentration; to skip is fatal.' Times Literary Supplement, 1938 A true challenge to Golden Age fans, famous for its light-touch clues hidden through the narrative, and an ending that still resonates today. Set in the countryside of Dorset and Somerset, with lashings of international intrigue. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Not to Be Taken (Paperback)
• Publisher: British Library Publishing, London
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712355421
• ISBN 13: 9780712355421
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Not to Be Taken is a 1938 mystery detective novel by the British writer Anthony Berkeley. It was one of several stand-alone novels he wrote alongside his series featuring the private detective Roger Sheringham. It was written when the Golden Age of Detective Fiction was at its height. It was published in the United States with the alternative title A Puzzle in Poison .