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A review by alittlemixofvix
Murder on a Winter's Night: Ten Classic Crime Stories by Cecily Gayford
3.0
So me only paying half attention, got attracted by the initial blurb and missed the part about it being classic crime writers - I only realised when I started reading and thought that the writing looked old-fashioned.
I don't think the mysteries are as good as current authors but there were definitely good ones in there. My favourites were:
The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention by Dorothy L. Sayers,
The New Catacomb by Arthur Conan Doyla, and
The Motive by Ronald Knox
Others I struggled with either due to the language or the sheer number of characters in such short stories.
Overall, a good Christmas read without the usual happy endings!
I don't think the mysteries are as good as current authors but there were definitely good ones in there. My favourites were:
The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention by Dorothy L. Sayers,
The New Catacomb by Arthur Conan Doyla, and
The Motive by Ronald Knox
Others I struggled with either due to the language or the sheer number of characters in such short stories.
Overall, a good Christmas read without the usual happy endings!