Murder On Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season (Vintage Murders)
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Murder On Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season (Vintage Murders)
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This one Father Brown goes to visit a local man who has lost his two elder brothers, who were killed by their adoptive brother.
The short stories in this book are concise and they all deal with either murder or tragic incidents – just what I was looking for and yet… I did not enjoy this book as much as I wanted to. Val has served as a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017.The Santa Claus Club by Julian Symons- in which Francis Quarles must figure out a locked room mystery that has Lord Acrise murdered during a dinner in plain sight. This one is about a man just out of prison with no real way to make money, so he decides to dress as Santa and raid a hotel. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Cecily Gayford studied English at the University of Oxford, where she wrote her thesis on the 'golden age' detective stories of the 1930s and 1940s.
Her series featuring criminal profiler Tony Hill was the basis for the TV series The Wire in the Blood for ITV. What I enjoyed most is that the stories selected for MURDER ON CHRISTMAS EVE are not just modern, some are classic stories written decades earlier. This one I didn’t like as much, it was a story within a story, slow and didn’t really capture my attention.One person has been arrested, however we still need to hear from anyone who was in the Spenlow House area between 7pm and 11pm on Christmas Eve and may have seen or heard anything suspicious. It’s Christmas Eve on the snowy cobbled streets of Victorian London, Suddenly, a scream deep within one of the tenement houses!
TheBookAtWar by Andrew Pettegree is the perfect present for bibliophiles and history buffs alike – a fascinating exploration of the role of books in wartime. While the world sleeps, snow falls gently from the sky, presents await under the tree … and murder is afoot. Thus discovering the man hateds the Doctor because she has never stopped loving him, therefore is poisoning himself and is going to blame the Doctor and Wife, even if it means he kills himself. We recognise this will also have an impact on the wider community and we will have additional patrols in the area over the coming days to provide reassurance.
You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. A Wife in a Million by Val McDermid, a rather chilling story told in just sixteen pages, As Dark as Christmas Gets by Lawrence Block, masterful tale about a missing manuscript told in forty pages and No Sanity Clause by Ian Rankin. Possibly having as close a remit as crimes committed on one particular day is too limiting but I found the ten stories presented here lacklustre at best.
It was full of short stories, all based around Christmas and the blurb made it sound gruesome, cold blooded and scary. This family have a painting that looks exactly like their landscape until it suddenly it starts to snow in the painting, causing much sir around the household, especially when it starts to snow outside. Seamingly distressed, Father Brown tries to get all the details from the last remaining brother, including a letter tell that he’s next. Detectives from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command are leading the investigation, and Detective Chief Inspector Brian Howie asked for anyone with any information to come forward.A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 22-year-old woman was stabbed to death in south London. The Trinity Cat by Ellis Peters- a clever story in which elderly Miss Patience has been murdered and the rectory cat intent on ferreting out his Christmas present points the paw at the guilty party. She soon though starts to recale going outside into the snow, and remembers the snowglobe in the house of her attacked neighbour.
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