This book is set in 1920s London with Berkeley’s amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham and the members of the “Crimes Circle” club, a group of armchair detectives, who set about solving a murder case that has stumped the detectives at Scotland Yard. After a week of individual investigations, the club members gather to put forth their theories. Each member formulates a different solution to the identity of the perpetrator as well as the motive for the murder, but as each member takes his or her turn, the previous member’s theory gets debunked. Six plausible explanations of what really happened are put forward and the members of the Crimes Circle, along with the reader, keep guessing until the very end of the book.

I loved this book! As previously stated, all of the theories were plausible—well, except maybe the one where one of the members accused himself