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Anthony Berkeley


Born
in Watford, The United Kingdom
July 05, 1893

Died
March 09, 1971


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
Cox was born in Watford and was educated at Sherborne School and University College London.

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).

It was also in 1925 when he published, anonymously to b
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“She was a mild, inoffensive, well-meaning creature, with a face not unlike that of an amiable horse, and she spent most of her life striving so hard to do the right thing and invariably doing the wrong one.”
Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears

“For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity.”
Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery

“Real life is one anti-climax after another.”
Anthony Berkeley, The Wychford Poisoning Case

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