Murder under the Christmas Tree
Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season
by Cecily Gayford, Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Ngaio Marsh
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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..
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Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, crime, carbuncles, Christmas dinners, commissionaires, Fiction, Private investigatorsPeople
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Murder under the Christmas Tree: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season
2016, Profile Books Limited
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in English
1781257914 9781781257913
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The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers
The name on the window / Edmund Crispin
A traditional Christmas / Val McDermid
Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle
The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton
Cinders / Ian Rankin
Death on the air / Ngaio Marsh
Persons or things unknown / Carter Dickson
The case is altered / Margery Allingham
The price of light / Ellis Peters
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