The Layton Court Mystery

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But questions lingered as to why he was was really carrying that knife when he left his flat first thing in the morning. Anthony Berkeley Cox was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley Cox, and A. Monmouth Platts. One of the founders of The Detection Club

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He served in the Army in World War I and thereafter worked as a journalist, contributing a series of humourous sketches to the magazine 'Punch'. These were later published collectively (1925) under the Anthony Berkeley pseudonym as 'Jugged Journalism' and the book was followed by a series of minor comic novels such as 'Brenda Entertains' (1925), 'The Family Witch' (1925) and 'The Professor on Paws' (1926). For a novel written in 1925 and the first Roger Sheringham case, it's actually a good one, once the reader doesn't expect from Berkeley the writing standards of Somerset Maugham's. Plotwise, Berkeley is no Conan Doyle, and even less of Agatha Christie (despite Roger behaving like Poirot at some point: “That’s what makes it all the more extraordinary, because I really am very seldom wrong. I say it in all modesty, but the fact is indisputable.”) For daily news from Teesside's courts direct to your inbox, go here to sign up to our free court newsletter Read More Related Articles

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Layton sent message after message, threatening Liam Frost's family and telling him he would do, "jail time" over what he intended to do to his friend.