Ironically, only “The Murder of Santa Claus,” the longest of them, is a traditional whodunit, using a meticulously evoked country-house setting at Christmas 1939 to bring together an uncomfortable roster of guests and a venerable host who’s first threatened and then killed shortly after he makes the midnight rounds as Father Christmas. But fans hungry for scraps from James’ table will revel in the stories themselves. Half a dozen more reprinted stories, originally published between 19, from the late doyenne of the formal English mystery in all its majesty.Īs in The Mistletoe Murder (2016), the brief, nondescript introduction, this time by Peter Kemp, gives no information about the dates or original publication venues of these wondrous tales.
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