Malice Aforethought

by Francis Iles, Barry Forshaw (Introduction)

Overview

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Malice Aforethought is one of the earliest and finest examples of the inverted detective story – we know who committed the crime, the question is, will he get away with it?

This edition features an afterword by crime writing expert and award-winning writer Barry Forshaw.

Dr Edmund Bickleigh and his insufferable wife Julia are hosting a tennis party where gossip rivals tennis as the most interesting sport. The seemingly genteel doctor is unable to tolerate Julia’s incessant henpecking any longer, and as his passion for the mysterious Madeleine Cranmere grows so does his resolve to murder his wife. Set in stuffy 1920s England and told from the perspective of the devious Dr Bickleigh himself, Malice Aforethought is impeccably plotted and darkly comic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509889365
Publisher:	Macmillan Collector's Library
Publication date:	01/08/2019
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	3.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Francis Iles was the pseudonym for Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893 - 1971). He was born in Watford and served in World War One before working as a journalist for Punch and The Humorist magazines. He wrote his first novel in 1925 and enjoyed success with his many detective novels and short stories. In 1930 he co-founded the famous Detection Club alongside famous crime writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. He wrote three novels under the pseudonym Francis Iles of which Malice Aforethought was the most famous.