Christianna Brand
#386: Spoiler Warning – Coming in July: Fog of Doubt, a.k.a. London Particular (1952) by Christianna Brand
It’s been a few weeks since Aidan and I examined John Rhode’s impossible crime novel Invisible Weapons (1938) in full spoiler style, and now the time is ripe to pick another piece of classic detective fiction and let you know another spoilerful dissection is due.
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#380: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 5.2: Dan’s 15 Favourite Impossible Crime Novels + Bonus Material!
I was pretty much goaded into this, you should know. Ben at The Green Capsule is diversifying his blogging to extend beyond the works of John Dickson Carr, and the first book he chose was 
The setup of The Poisoned Chocolates Case is rightly very famous: a lady is killed when a box of chocolates given to her husband by another member of his gentlemen’s club — who himself received them unsolicited through the mail — turns out to have been laced with poison. The police, with no culprit in sight, allow six amateurs with a fascination for real life crimes to theorise and present their own solutions, each one appearing watertight until someone finds a flaw that brings the edifice down. For this conceit alone, and the genius way Berkeley uses his different sleuths to unpick the sparse and simple known facts, this book has passed into near-legend in detective fiction circles.
