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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. Nearly every member of the party stands to reap some sort of benefit from Sir Osmond's death, but Santa Klaus, the one person who seems to ...

Tante Mildred hat es schon immer geahnt: Die Verwandtschaft an Weihnachten zu versammeln ist keine gute Idee. Als der Familienpatriarch mit einer Kugel im Kopf gefunden wird, entbrennt an der festlichen Tafel ein Streit um sein Erbe. Dieser neuentdeckte Klassiker von Mavis Doriel Hay ist ein Muss für alle Krimifans und perfekt geeignet, von den eigenen Familiendramen an Weihnachten abzulenken. Das traditionelle Familienfest im Hause Melbury ...

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. Nearly every member of the party stands to reap some sort of benefit from Sir Osmond's death, but Santa Klaus, the one person who seems...

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Tante Mildred hat es schon immer geahnt: Die Verwandtschaft an Weihnachten zu versammeln ist keine gute Idee. Als der Familienpatriarch mit einer Kugel im Kopf gefunden wird, entbrennt an der festlichen Tafel ein Streit um sein Erbe. Dieser neuentdeckte Klassiker von Mavis Doriel Hay ist ein Muss für alle Krimifans und perfekt geeignet, von den eigenen Familiendramen an Weihnachten abzulenken. Das traditionelle Familienfest im Hause Melbury ...

This detective novel is much more than interesting. The numerous characters are well differentiated, and include one of the most feckless, exasperating and lifelike literary men that ever confused a trail.' Dorothy L. Sayers, Sunday Times, 1934 When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station, her fellow-boarders in the Frampton Hotel are not overwhelmed with grief at the death of a tiresome old woman. But they all h...

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.

A new edition of the festive classic crime novel, which was rediscovered by the British Library in 2013 and was highly acclaimed on its publication. It has an aristocratic setting, a dead earl, a major suspect and has loads of clues, red herrings and twists. First published in 1936.