The Silk Stocking Murders: A Detective Story Club Classic Crime Novel (The Detective Club)
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The Silk Stocking Murders: A Detective Story Club Classic Crime Novel (The Detective Club)
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Mike Grady
About this listen
A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer.
Investigating the disappearance of a vicar’s daughter in London, the popular novelist and amateur detective Roger Sheringham is shocked to discover that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a screw by her own silk stocking. Reports of similar deaths across the capital strengthen his conviction that this is no suicide cult but the work of a homicidal maniac out for vengeance – a desperate situation requiring desperate measures.
Having established Roger Sheringham as a brilliant but headstrong young sleuth who frequently made mistakes, trusted the wrong people and imbibed considerable liquid refreshment, Anthony Berkeley took his controversial character into much darker territory with The Silk Stocking Murders, a sensational novel about gruesome serial killings by an apparent psychopath bent on targeting vulnerable young women.
©1928 Anthony Berkeley (P)2017 HarperCollins PublishersCritic Reviews
‘Anthony Berkeley is the supreme master not of the “twist” but of the “double-twist”.’ Milward Kennedy in the Sunday Times
‘Detection and crime at its wittiest – all Berkeley’s stories are amusing, intriguing and he is a master of the final twist.’
Agatha Christie
What listeners say about The Silk Stocking Murders: A Detective Story Club Classic Crime Novel (The Detective Club)
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Margaret
- 15-03-2025
Roger Sheringham a most unlikeable detective. The narrator voice for Roger was creepy
Dated. Uninteresting. No insight into human nature. Unbelievable. Narrator spoke in an irritating condescending creepy voice. Join st could listen to it for more than a minute before tuning out. So hard to finish. I suppose Anthony Berkeley had to start the detective club or he would have never made it as a member. Appalling ideas about women although that is of it’s time. I usually give a book five stars or don’t bother reviewing at all. But this time I recommend you save your money.
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