A best-selling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier. 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. Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is "pure Agatha Christie.". Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, įour previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time-swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment." The newly appointed Sgt. Published by Knopf Publishing Group on October 25th 2016 Jamesįormats available: hardcover, large print, ebook, audiobook The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories by P.D.
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