アントニー・バークリー

Malice Aforethought is a murder mystery novel written by Anthony Berkeley Cox, using the pen name Francis Iles. It is an early and prominent example of the "inverted detective story", invented by R. Austin Freeman some years earlier. The murderer's identity is revealed in the first line of the novel, which gives the …

『毒入りチョコレート事件』は英国の作家アントニー・バークリー作の推理小説である。1929年発表。日本では『新青年』の1934年8月号に「毒殺六人賦」の題名で初めて翻案が掲載された。

Before the Fact is a novel by Anthony Berkeley writing under the pen name "Francis Iles". Iles' novel is experimental in that it is not a whodunit: It does not take long to determine the identity of the villain and his motives. According to Colin Dexter, Before the Fact is a "crime novel" rather than a "detective …