Book
The mistletoe murder : and other stories
Record details
- ISBN: 9781524708924
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Physical Description:
216 pages ; 19 cm
print - Edition: Large print edition
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Large Print, 2016
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| Subject: | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Christmas -- Fiction Short stories, English |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery stories. Christmas stories. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Forks | LP FIC JAM (Text) | 35142002617636 | Large Print | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-04-23 |
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."
