Cox, A B
Entry updated 6 February 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1893-1971) UK author, best known for detective stories as by Anthony Berkeley and as by Francis Iles; he also wrote some fantasies and at least two sf works: The Professor on Paws (1926), in which a man's brain is transplanted into the family Cat (see Identity Transfer), but – in an odd prefiguration of Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon (April 1959 F&SF; exp 1966) – gradually finds his human intellect fading into the cunning stupor of his feline host; and The Merchant Prince; or, the Pioneers of Aristocracy (1928 chap) with music by J J Sterling Hill, a play set in a village 40 years in the future. Neither of these works is of the quality of his detective novels. [JC]
Anthony Berkeley Cox
born Watford, Hertfordshire: 5 July 1893
died London: 9 March 1971
works
- The Family Witch: An Essay in Absurdity (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1925) [hb/]
- Jugged Journalism (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1925) [coll: parodies including some of fantasy and sf stories: hb/]
- The Professor on Paws (London: W Collins Sons and Co, 1926) [hb/Nick]
- The Merchant Prince; or, the Pioneers of Aristocracy (London: no publisher listed, 1928) with music by J J Sterling Hill [play: chap: printed in conjunction with stage play first performed March 1928: pb/]
about the author
- George Locke writing as Ayresome Johns. The Anthony Berkeley Cox Files: Notes Towards a Bibliography (London: Ferret Fantasy, 1993) [nonfiction: chap but large pages: pb/EP]
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