Anthony Berkeley Anthologies books in order

Anthony Berkeley's anthology appearances span seven collections from 1931 to 2024, including collaborative Detection Club works and modern reprints of Golden Age short fiction.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1931 Anthony Berkeley Buy
2 Ask a Policeman 1933 Anthony Berkeley Buy
3 Six Against the Yard 1937 Anthony Berkeley Buy
4 The Scoop and Behind the Screen 1983 Anthony Berkeley Buy
5 Bodies from the Library 2019 Anthony Berkeley Buy
6 Murder Takes a Holiday 2021 Anthony Berkeley Buy
7 Murder Under the Sun 2024 Anthony Berkeley Buy

Berkeley contributed to collaborative and collected anthologies throughout his career and has continued to appear posthumously in Golden Age reprint collections. The earliest entries here are Detection Club projects: Ask a Policeman (1933) and Six Against the Yard (1937), both experiments where multiple crime writers tackled the same premise from different angles. The Scoop and Behind the Screen (1983) reprints two serialised radio mystery stories written collectively by Detection Club members including Berkeley, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. Sayers.

More recent anthologies, Bodies from the Library (2019), Murder Takes a Holiday (2021), and Murder Under the Sun (2024), are modern collections of rediscovered Golden Age short fiction. These volumes have brought previously uncollected Berkeley stories back into print for contemporary audiences and are part of a broader revival of interest in Golden Age crime writing.


Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Anthony Berkeley Anthologies series?

There are seven books in the Anthony Berkeley Anthologies series, published between 1931 and 2024.

What is the first book in the Anthony Berkeley Anthologies series?

The first book in the Anthony Berkeley Anthologies series is Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, published in 1931.

What are the Detection Club collaborative anthologies?

Ask a Policeman (1933) and Six Against the Yard (1937) were collaborative projects from the Detection Club, the crime-writing society Berkeley helped found. Each book features multiple authors writing different solutions or perspectives on the same crime.

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