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This month's newsletter is the last one of the year and fortunately for us, it is in December. This is a festive time of year; it is Christmastime this month. For this newsletter, I thought to theme it around Christmas mysteries. It is a great way to include some very great authors work that is themed around Christmas and mysteries.
Some of the authors I included like Agatha Christie, I am very aware of. However, this list included some author like J. Jefferson Farjeon that I am newly introduced to. It is my intent that you find some of authors and these books of interest to you this holiday season.
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Well, for this last installment of the mystery newsletter, I thought to take a look at the prior month’s but to use the theme I used on the last two months to theme them by a holiday or monthly theme. December’s theme will be Christmas or ten Christmas mysteries to warm your heart with.
So, for this newsletter we will look at the 10 best Christmas mysteries that you can enjoy this holiday season.
The first mystery story is from author Hannah Byron and the story is “The Unsolved Case of the Secret Christmas Baby,” a story that is not really a heart warmer at all, it is a story that gets your blood boiling but the case still needs solving. In the decades of her husband’s job as chief constable of the neighboring Landdulton, the childless Imogene often assisted him in solving seemingly unsolvable crimes. On his deathbed Thaddeus Lynch has one last request to his wife: solve the secret Christmas baby’s mystery.
Overcome by grief, but with the promise as a stamp on her heart, Imogene sets out in her roundabout way to unearth Sir Finley Lowther’s mysterious origins. The first trace leads to Miss Eloise Platt, a well-respected Dartmond shopkeeper.
But when a baby’s skull is dredged up from the bottom of Tiverstock Lake and Miss Eloise confesses to the murder, Mrs Imogene Lynch faces a stalemate. While the Dartmonders squabble over Miss Platt’s fate, the widow-turned-detective worries she’ll never fulfil her promise.
To break through her impasse, she pays a visit to the elderly Lady Lowther in Ridgeview Asylum with far-reaching consequences. This is where you will need to read this book to find out who committed this horrendous crime.
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The second mystery story is from author Gladys Mitchell and the story is “Death Comes at Christmas”, the story it is December and Mrs Bradley has left London behind for a relaxing visit to the countryside. Then, on Christmas Eve, a local solicitor is found dead by the river. Everyone believes that he suffered a heart attack – but Mrs Bradley is suspicious, and is soon investigating a series of disturbing clues. As the frost thaws and spring begins, the inimitable detective must work fast if she is to protect the people close to her from a resourceful killer…
Escape to wintry rural Oxfordshire with an unforgettable detective who’s truly like no other and investigate a series of disturbing clues in this hugely entertaining story. Death Comes at Christmas: (Available at Amazon.Com)
For the 3rd selection of stories, we will venture into a small town Christmas mystery with quirky characters in “Murder for Christmas” by author Francis Duncan. In this story, Mordecai Tremaine has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow – and as midnight strikes the party-goers discover that it’s not just presents nestling under the tree – there’s a dead body too. A dead body that bears a striking resemblance to Father Christmas.
With a cast of oddball characters, this is a wonderfully executed golden age country house murder mystery. Mordecai – both quirky and unassuming – makes for an excellent amateur sleuth, and with a limited cast of characters and suspects you will love attempting to figure out whodunit!
Murder for Christmas: A British Holiday Murder Mystery (Mordecai Tremaine Mystery Book 1): ($9.99 from Amazon.Com)
In the fourth mystery story for Christmas, we find this collection of British Christmas mysteries in the bundle of “Silent Night: Christmas Mysteries” by Martin Edwards. Here we see Blending lively storylines with atmospheric evocations of the season, Silent Nights introduces readers to some of the finest Christmas detective stories of the past.
Martin Edwards’ selection of short stories blends festive pieces from much-loved authors with one or two stories which are likely to be unfamiliar even to die hard mystery fans. The result is a collection of crime fiction to savour, whatever the season. Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics): ($2.99 from Amazon.Com)
Now, we are at the fifth Christmas mystery of the season, and we find ourselves with “Murder in the Snow” by Gladys Mitchell. This story Mrs Bradley, sharp-eyed detective and celebrated psychiatrist, has decided to spend Christmas with her nephew at his beautiful house in the Cotswolds. It isn’t long before a mystery unfolds. There are strange events occurring in the nearby wood and local villagers are receiving anonymous threatening letters. Then the snow begins to fall – and a body is discovered. Mrs Bradley is on the case, but she’ll have to hatch an ingenious plan to reveal the truth and find the culprit…
A glorious winter setting, a relentless and charming amateur detective, and a fascinating mystery make this classic crime treat perfect for the Christmas season. Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics): ($2.99 from Amazon.Com)
Next, we move on to the sixth Christmas mystery in this line of books, and we move on to a book by author Georgette Heyer titled “Christmas Party: A Seasonal Murder Mystery” and this is truly not your usual book. A country house, a locked room mystery and an old Scrooge make for the perfect vintage combination.
It is no ordinary Christmas at Lexham Manor. Six holiday guests find themselves the suspects in a murder inquiry when the old miser who owns the estate is found stabbed in the back. Inheritance provides the motive for this beautifully written classic but the real conundrum is how any of the suspects could have entered the locked room where the victim was found, to commit this foul deed.
A case for Inspector Hemingway of Scotland Yard, yes this is a case for Scotland Yard. A Christmas Party: A Seasonal Murder Mystery/Envious Casca: (Available at Amazon.Com)
Now, we’re off to mystery number seven in the list of Christmas murder mysteries and we find ourselves with an Agatha Christie mystery. This book is called “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas” by Agatha Christie and as usual, we are immersed in another great mystery, at Christmas, no less.
At Christmastime we welcome old friends – and there is no one dearer to our hearts than mighty Hercule Poirot.
It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man. And now the mystery begins.
Hercule Poirot's Christmas: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition (Hercule Poirot Mysteries, 19): (Available at Amazon.Com)
Now, over to mystery number eight. This Christmas mystery is by author Mavis Hay called “The Santa Klaus Murder”. When all is getting 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.
Told from multiple perspectives as each suspect makes a statement, this novel lets the reader feel right at the centre of the action, and with a cast of suspects that each have their own plausible motive, you’ll soon be donning your own deerstalker. The Santa Klaus Murder: A Christmas Murder Mystery (British Library Crime Classics): ($1.99 from Amazon.Com)
We’re really moving along now, only two more mysteries to go for this final mystery newsletter of the year. No reason to delay, let’s move on so we can discover more Christmas mysteries to enjoy.
For the ninth Christmas mystery, we move on to “Another Little Christmas Murder” by Lorna Morgen. When a snowstorm brings a group of stranded strangers to the door of Wintry Wold, a remote country house in a bleak and lonely area of Yorkshire, all is not what it first seems. When the morning brings news of the death of the house’s owner, one party member, Dilys Hughes, sets out to investigate. Was it a natural death, or was it murder? Another Little Christmas Murder: (Available at Amazon.Com)
Now, we are at the final Christmas mystery of this newsletter. It is a classic and one of the best to cap off this listing. This final mystery is titled, “Mystery in White” by author J. Jefferson Farjeon and it is a chilling Christmas mystery to read. The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house.’
On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been lit and the table laid for tea – but no one is at home. Trapped together for Christmas, the passengers are seeking to unravel the secrets of the empty house when a murderer strikes in their midst. A chilling classic Christmas crime. Mystery in White: ($0.99 from Amazon.Com)
What an amazing year it has been, for me and my family, so I hope it has been an amazing year for you as well. This newsletter is pretty long so I will say Merry Christmas to you and I do hope you don’t get caught up in your own personal Christmas mystery to close out this month.
Take care…and see you in 2023!
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