Anthony Berkeley (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Principal Series
Roger Sheringham, 1925-1945; Ambrose Chitterwick, 1929-1937.
Principal Series Character
Roger Sheringham, an amateur sleuth and mystery aficionado, was created initially to parody an unpleasant acquaintance of the author. Anthony Berkeley’s readers, however, warmed to him, and he reappeared in other novels, with his offensiveness—an all-knowing insouciance—much subdued and rendered more genial, but retaining his urbanity and sophistication.
Ambrose Chitterwick, an unlikely, mild-mannered detective. He negates all popular images of...
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