The mistletoe murder and other stories
(Large Print)
Author
Published
New York : Random House Large Print, [2016].
Edition
First large print edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 216 pages (large print) ; 19 cm
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Published
New York : Random House Large Print, [2016].
Format
Large Print
Edition
First large print edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"With a foreword by Val McDermid"--Cover.
Description
"As the acknowledged Queen of Crime, P.D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Four of the best of these are collected here for the first time. Swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh) that together--to borrow the author's own description--add up to a delightful 'entertainment.' In the title story, a bestselling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier...in 'A Very Commonplace Murder,' a 'pedantic, respectable, censorious' clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a murder... 'The Boxdale Inheritance' finds Dalgliesh implored by his godfather to reinvestigate a notorious murder, an investigation that will reveal a family secret so dark that Dalgliesh will firmly rebury it...and in 'The Twelve Clues of Christmas,' Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that involves a family with 'an aversion to natural death.' Each of these stories is as playful as it is ingeniously plotted, the author's sly humor as evident as her narrative elegance and shrewd understanding of some of the most complex--not to say the most unsettling--aspects of human nature. And each tantalizes us with a uniquely P.D. Jamesian mystery to be puzzled out"--Back cover.
Target Audience
9-12,Medialog, Inc.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
James, P. D. (2016). The mistletoe murder and other stories (First large print edition.). Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)James, P. D.. 2016. The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories. Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)James, P. D.. The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories Random House Large Print, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)James, P. D.. The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories First large print edition., Random House Large Print, 2016.
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