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A review by helen
A Very Murderous Christmas by Cecily Gayford
3.0
For some reason, in Britain, we've decided that Christmas + crime = comforting. G.K. Chesterton’s master criminal Flambeau summed it up when he said “my last crime was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cosy, English middle-class crime; a crime of Charles Dickens. I did it in a good old middle-class house near Putney, a house with a crescent of carriage drive, a house with a stable by the side of it, a house with the name on the two outer gates, a house with a monkey tree.”
My favourites in this collection were the Rumpole of the Bailey one, which has an excellent punchline, and the Anthony Horowitz one set in a Christmas cracker factory.
I could've done with a brief introduction to each short story, giving some context (e.g. original publication date, setting etc.).
My favourites in this collection were the Rumpole of the Bailey one, which has an excellent punchline, and the Anthony Horowitz one set in a Christmas cracker factory.
I could've done with a brief introduction to each short story, giving some context (e.g. original publication date, setting etc.).