Six armchair detectives. Six different solutions. One poisoned box of chocolates. When Sir Eustace Pennefather receives a complimentary box of chocolates at his London club, he passes them along to fellow member Graham Bendix, who shares them with his wife Joan. She dies. He barely survives. The police are stumped. But the Crimes Circle? They've got theories. Roger Sheringham, detective novelist and president of this peculiar society of intellectual hobbyists, proposes they crack the case where Scotland Yard failed. What follows is a dazzling parade of competing hypotheses, each member mounting a passionate argument for their solution while the real poisoner watches from the wings. Berkeley transforms the whodunit into a thrilling spectator sport: you won't just read the theories, you'll want to argue about them too. The charm lies not in violence or intrigue, but in the sheer pleasure of watching clever people think out loud.
