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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I was also missing some form of symbolism or higher literary meaning, which the likes of Dostoevsky and Wilde manage to incorporate so superbly in their own short stories.
They may have improved if I had persevered but I had other books that I would rather be reading over the festive period. It’s Christmas Eve on the snowy cobbled streets of Victorian London, Suddenly, a scream deep within one of the tenement houses!I would urge anyone with any information that may be relevant to our investigation, no matter how insignificant it may have seemed at the time, to come forward immediately. The styles range from the modern touches of Ian Rankin and Val McDermid to a classic little Campion tale from Margery Allingham - but they're all (with one possible exception) well written, a delight to read and firmly set in the Christmas period.
Like many other short story collections that involve some sort of theme, there are tales here that are full of Christmas spirit and others that merely use this time of year as an ironic reference point for the central action. As my last Christmas murder mystery was a disappointment, I jumped right into this with fingers crossed the title really meant what it read. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Thus discovering the man hateds the Doctor because she has never stopped loving him, therefore is poisoning himself and is going to blame the Doctor and Wife, even if it means he kills himself. However, I did enjoy The footprint in the sky, A wife in a million, The dagger with wings and Cambrice tea. While the world sleeps, snow falls gently from the sky, presents await under the tree … and murder is afoot. My favourites are The Trinity Cat by Ellis Peters, about a cat that knows who killed its owner (perfect for any cat lover!
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