Silent nights : Christmas mysteries / edited with introductions by Martin Edwards.
Collects fifteen classic British mystery tales featuring a Christmas themes.
Record details
- ISBN: 1464204993
- ISBN: 9781464204999
- Physical Description: vi, 290 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Ingram Pub Services, 2015.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in London in 1936 by Collins"--Title page verso. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The blue carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Parlour tricks / Ralph Plummer -- A happy solution / Raymund Allen -- The flying stars / G.K. Chesterton -- Stuffing / Edgar Wallace -- The unknown murderer / H.C. Bailey -- The absconding treasurer / J. Jefferson Farjeon -- The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers -- The case is altered / Margery Allingham -- Waxworks / Ethel Lina White -- Cambric Tea / Marjorie Bowen -- The Chinese apple / Joseph Shearing -- A problem in white / Nicholas Blake -- The name onthe window / Edmund Crispin -- Beef for Christmas / Leo Bruce. |
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Subject: | Detective and mystery stories, English. Short stories, English. |
Genre: | Christmas stories, English. |
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Summary
Silent Nights : Christmas Mysteries
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "Like an assortment of presents under a Christmas tree, there's something for everyone in this Yule-themed reprint anthology in the British Library Crime Classics series from Edwards." --Publishers Weekly Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside as the year draws to a close. Christmas tales of crime and detection have a similar appeal. When television becomes tiresome, and party games pall, the prospect of curling up in the warm with a good mystery is enticing--and much better for the digestion than yet another helping of plum pudding. Crime writers are just as susceptible as readers to the countless attractions of Christmas. Over the years, many distinguished practitioners of the genre have given one or more of their stories a Yuletide setting. The most memorable Christmas mysteries blend a lively storyline with an atmospheric evocation of the season. Getting the mixture right is much harder than it looks. This book introduces of readers to some of the finest Christmas detective stories of the past. Martin Edwards' selection blends festive pieces from much-loved authors with one or two stories which are likely to be unfamiliar even to diehard mystery fans. The result is a collection of crime fiction to savor, whatever the season.