Malice Aforethought: The Story of a Commonplace Crime

Author Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893-1971) employed two pseudonyms: as Francis Iles he was a master of psychological suspense; as Anthony Berkeley, he was a luminary of the golden age of crime and detective novels. His 1932 novel Before the Fact was adapted into the classic 1941 film Suspicion, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine.