The mistletoe murder : and other stories
Call Number
- MYSTERY JAME (CEN, EAS, OSH)
Edition
First American edition.
Publication Information
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Physical Description
xvi, 152 pages ; 20 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
Collected in this book are four murder mystery short stories by P.D. James, all centered around Christmas and two of which feature the young poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh. In the title story, a bestselling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier. In "A Very Commonplace Murder," a "pedantic, respectable, censorious" clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a murder. "The Boxdale Inheritance" finds Dalgliesh implored by his godfather to reinvestigate a notorious murder, an investigation that will reveal a family secret so dark that Dalgliesh will firmly rebury it. And in "The Twelve Clues of Christmas," Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that involves a family with "an aversion to natural death."
Notes
"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Contents
- The mistletoe murder
- A very commonplace murder
- The Boxdale inheritance
- The twelve clues of Christmas.