The Christmas Murders

Synopsis

[from inside flaps] "Following the success of his three previous collections (The Pleasures of Murder, The Railway Murders and The Seaside Murders), Jonathan Goodman now presents a seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime. Here are ten murder cases of "the old-fashioned sort--evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction--which all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The widely various settings range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York (where a gentleman named Molineux provided a drastic cure for hangovers by putting cyanide in a gift-wrapped bottle of Bromo Seltzer) to an apartment in Glasgow (home of a wealthy Scots woman whose demise seemed to have been satisfactorily explained by local constables, until Arthur Conan Doyle assumed the role of Sherlock Holmes); from a builder's workshop in North London (site of a murder committed by a man called Furnace, who suited his criminal action to his name) to the elegant dwelling of a menage a trois near the Thames (scene of a puzzling poisoning that, years later, Raymond Chandler tried, unofficially, to solve). In The Christmas Murders, Jonathan Goodman has come up with a collection as fascinating and compulsively readable as one would expect from a writer described by Jacques Barzun as "the greatest living master of true-crime literature" and by Julian Symons as "the premier investigator of crimes past"."

Copyright:

1986

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

210 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780850316940

Publisher:

Allison & Busby, Limited

Date of Addition:

12/01/16

Copyrighted By:

Jonathan Goodman

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

Yes

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics

Submitted By:

Evan Reese

Proofread By:

Lissi

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.