The Wychford Poisoning Case (Detective Club Crime Classics)

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If you'd like to walk through ancient forest, one public right of access runs through the middle of the forest on the private property of the Cornbury Estate. Unfortunately, there is no other public right of access to the original forest - 90% of the surviving forest in the Wychwood area is in private land ownership. You can find out more about the circular walk through Charlbury's ancient forest here. Mrs Bentley is on remand waiting to be tried for poisoning her husband John Bentley. Roger Sheringham, on no very definite evidence, believes her to be innocent even though he hasn't met any of the people involved in the case. He travels to Wychford with a friend who has a cousin living in the town to do some investigation himself in an attempt to clear Mrs Bentley's name. It was also in 1925 when he published, anonymously to begin with, his first detective novel, 'The Layton Court Mystery', which was apparently written for the amusement of himself and his father, who was a big fan of the mystery genre. Later editions of the book had the author as Anthony Berkeley. Wychwood Brewery produces around 50,000 barrels (8,200,000 litres [2,200,000USgal]) of cask ale each year, and is the United Kingdom's largest brewer of organic ales. Wychwood filtered and bottled beers are exported all over the world by their export partners Sovereign Beverage Company, to countries including North America, Germany, Sweden, France, Australia, Russia, Japan, Israel and Singapore. The village started life as a manor in the ownership of the de Langley family, who were the hereditary owners of Wychwood forest and had a royal hunting lodge in the area.

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Area: Whichford (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 22 December 2015.I have to laugh at the "modern day" commentary about this book. I will never be one of those who have gone so overboard with emotionalism as to deem things like the spanking scene and flippant comments about women as "dangerous." People seem to be looking for things to be offended by.

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This is a good venue for meeting our friends - our lunch was perfect in everyway and the waitress went above and beyond to accommodate any needs. Our intrepid novelist and private investigator Roger Sheringham is intrigued by the case of Mrs Bentley, a woman accused of poisoning her husband with arsenic. There appears to be overwhelming circumstantial evidence against Mrs Bentley but Sheringham feels this to be rather too much, and suspects that Mrs Bentley might actually be innocent. He and his wife lived in an old house in St John's Wood, London, and he had an office in The Strand where he was listed as one of the two directors of A B Cox Ltd, a company whose business was unspecified! This time Berkeley gave us his commentary on British law. He commented that the innocent until proven guilty-thing, doesn't exactly ring true as the words said. It was, actually, quite the contrary. Why not? When a case is in the public interest, public opinion seems to have decided that the accused party is indeed guilty. The until proven guilty-part makes people focused in trying to prove the guilt of the accused, opening a window for confirmation bias (which ironically has been affecting Roger Sheringham more often than he could remember).But overall Roger Sheringham is a worthy addition to the golden age and should not be ignored. The mystery itself is fun and something of a romp: not too serious but not too silly.

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The History and Development of Wychwood Park" (PDF). Weeds of Wychwood, 1888–2019 . Retrieved 2021-04-12.His first novel, The Layton Court Mystery, was published anonymously in 1925. It introduced Roger Sheringham, the amateur detective who features in many of the author's novels including the classic Poisoned Chocolates Case. In 1930, Berkeley founded the Detection Club in London along with Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts and other established mystery writers. Wychwood Park was founded as an artists' colony in the late nineteenth century, as a private project by painter Marmaduke Matthews and businessman Alexander Jardine. [2] The area was then still a rural region on the edge of the city, and Matthews planned out a picturesque community that he named after Wychwood forest in Oxfordshire, England. [3] Painting of Wychwood Park by Marmaduke Matthews, c. 1895 Anthony Berkeley Cox was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley Cox, and A. Monmouth Platts. One of the founders of The Detection Club