Classic Christmas Crime Stories
Classic Christmas Crime Stories, edited by Various authors and introduced by David Stuart Davies, is a captivating collection published by Macmillan Collector’s Library on October 17, 2023. This 320-page edition is designed for book lovers, featuring beautifully bound, pocket-sized volumes that are perfect for gifting. The anthology showcases a selection of ten stories from the golden age of British crime writing, highlighting the darker side of the festive season through mysterious deaths and clever whodunits.
Readers will discover a range of intriguing narratives that blend elements of mystery and crime with the holiday spirit. The collection includes contributions from notable authors such as Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, and Baroness Orczy, among others. Each story is crafted to entertain, offering a mix of tension and humor as characters navigate through dastardly Christmas crimes. This edition not only celebrates the genre but also invites readers to explore the complexities of crime during a time often associated with goodwill.
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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.
Christmas is not always the season of goodwill. As this hugely entertaining collection shows, it can also be the season of mysterious deaths, hidden poison bottles and blunt instruments…
The stories in Classic Christmas Crime Stories have been selected and introduced by writer David Stuart Davies.
This collection of ten stories from the golden age of British crime writing features festive whodunits by Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh. There are unexplained deaths by all manner of suspect means from famous writers such as Baroness Orczy and Marjorie Bowen, and dastardly Christmas crimes to be solved from esteemed crime writers such as Robert Barnard, Nicholas Olde and H. R. F. Keating. Each story is brilliantly plotted – some deliciously tense, others laced with humor – and each is bound to thoroughly entertain.
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