Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered - by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus - with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plunged into chaos.
Mavis Doriel Hay Knihy
Mavis Doriel Hayová byla autorkou detektivních románů, které krátce zazářily ve zlatém věku britské detektivky. Její tři pozoruhodná díla vynikají promyšlenými zápletkami a atmosférou. Kromě své literární tvorby byla Hayová také uznávanou odbornicí na venkovské řemeslné techniky, o nichž napsala několik vlivných knih.
British Library Crime Classics: Death on the Cherwell
- 286 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when the drowned body of the college bursar is found floating in her canoe.
Murder Underground
- 288 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
A classic mystery novel set in and around the Northern Line of the London Underground. It is now republished for the first time since the 1930s.