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...
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
The Necklace of Pearls
Dorothy L. Sayers 1
The Name on the Window
Edmund Crispin 19
A Traditional Christmas
Val McDermid 37
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Arthur Conan Doyle 55
The Invisible Man
G. K. Chesterton 89
Cinders
Ian Rankin 117
Death on the Air
Ngaio Marsh 143
Persons or Things Unknown
Carter Dickson 189
The Case is Altered
Margery Allingham 217
The Price of Light
Ellis Peters 243
