Murder under the Christmas Tree
Subtitle: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season
Publisher: Profile Books Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781781257913
Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, general; Fiction, crime
Description: Murder most festive...A locked room mystery solved with a flourish on Boxing Day. Blackmail on Christmas Eve.A missing jewel discovered in a very festive hiding place.A body slumped in a chair on Christmas morning, still listening to carols.The midnight theft of a gift intended for a saint. Crime doesn't take a holiday, so these - and many more - are the puzzles that make up Murder under the Christmas Tree, a collection of festive mysteries featuring fictional sleuths from Lord Peter Wimsey to Sherlock Holmes, Cadfael to Father Brown. This is the very best of Christmas murder and mayhem - so settle into your armchair, put another log on the fire and take a bite of your mince pie. Just make sure it's not poisoned..
Table of contents: title: The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers; title: The name on the window / Edmund Crispin; title: A traditional Christmas / Val McDermid; title: The adventures of the Blue Carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton; title: Cinders / Ian Rankin; title: Death on the air / Ngaio Marsh; title: Persons or things unknown / Carter Dickson; title: The case is altered / Margery Allingham; title: The price of light / Ellis Peters