Murder in the Falling Snow: Ten Classic Crime Stories (Vintage Murders)

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Murder in the Falling Snow: Ten Classic Crime Stories (Vintage Murders)

Murder in the Falling Snow: Ten Classic Crime Stories (Vintage Murders)

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The stories don't have details of the dates when they were written or previously published, which is a shame. Some of the other stories are less good and I didn't really like the Father Brown story that's included at all. Though there are 2 - 3 stories that were genuinely fun and exciting to read, most of them were a bit of a letdown – being rather clumsy and awkward. I don't think I am being unfair by saying that even though some of these authors are well-known and respected the particular stories in this book are hardly their best work.

I liked the vast majority of this collection and there are some authors in here that I will definitely read from again. Outstanding is The Chopham Affair by Edgar Wallace, in which a smooth-talking conman finally picks the wrong mark.The Chopham Affair by Edgar Wallace - in which a blackmailer of ladies meets his end on a snowy night by a roadside with a fantastic twist in the end. Well I just inhale short stories at Christmas, there is just something about cold winter nights, curled up in front of the fire, solving murders from the sofa! These are mainly set in the last century but I love the old fashioned settings, the way people spoke, the simplicity of life and the hardship of it before the health service, before the welfare state.

I also liked the Sayers story starring her lesser-known detective, commercial traveller Montague Egg, and the Sherlock Holmes story, though I'd read both of these before. Perhaps a bit more than just the title and author, even just the date first published (even the credits at the back of the book only mentions 4 of the stories and no dates), would have been the icing on the cake.There is no information given about the authors or the background to the stories, and some authors are better known than others, e. The Michael Innes story is also great - less wordy than his full-length Appleby novels, and very clever.

JANICE HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMESIt's only the afternoon, but dusk is already falling and a log fire burning in the grate. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The Mystery of Fellwyn Tunnel' by L T Meade and Robert Eustace - a railway signalman dies in mysterious and ghostly circumstances, but scientific investigator John Bell is not convinced . I had read the four longest entries before but was quite happy to read them all again ; the remaining six very short stories were fine. Several of these stories have been published in various other anthologies and I had certainly read some of them before.

My favourites in this were the Sherlock Holmes (which I've read many times), The Chopham Affair, and Haunted House, but my absolute favourite was The Mystery of Felwyn Tunnel, which is very like The Signalman by Charles Dickens, a story that I love. Unbelievably, this is the seventh seasonal collection in this series of cosy crime short stories edited by Cecily Gayford. The seasonal murder book market is flooded and there’s a whiff of barrel scraping here but, despite that, some major authors are included.



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