Murder By Candlelight

Edited by Gayford Cecily
Description:
Poisoned mince pies. A Christmas Eve ghost story that comes suddenly, horribly true. A locked-room puzzle on a train steaming through the winter''s night. All these, and many more, tales of mystery and malice await in Murder by Candlelight. As the nights draw in and the old year slips away, these ten classic stories - from the greatest writers of the crime genre - will baffle your mind and chill your blood in equal measure. From a cunningly-disguised killer to a country house with a lethal secret, the mood might be festive ... but the motive is murder.
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With Cecily Gayford in charge, we are on safe ground
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Praise for the Vintage Murder series:- Looking forward to Christmas? [The Vintage Murder series] is a fine way to start it. It''s a cracker
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An excellent collection of short stories by ten top-class writers
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Perfect for a quick fix of golden-age crime ... this collection of short winter chills is well worth reading by candlelight before turning in on Christmas Eve
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Short, clever and puzzling murder tales test the brains of the most avid crime reader ... delectable
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Has everything you might want ... take this little book to the beach [and] relax in the sun while reading of battered corpses
Biographical note:
Edited by Cecily Gayford and featuring work from classic authors such as Dorothy L Sayers, Cyril Hare, Simon Brett and more. Cecily Gayford studied English at the University of Oxford, where she immersed herself obsessively in the gothic, morbid and mysterious side of literature. Now a Publishing Director, she has worked at Profile Books for eleven years.
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Just beyond the firelight, nasty things are waiting in the shadows ...