THE CHRISTMAS MURDERS - Classic Stories of True Crime by Goodman, Jonathan (editor) (Richard Whittington-Egan; Harold Furniss; Albert Borowitz; Arthur Conan Doyle; Richard D. Altick; H. M. Walbrook) - 1988

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London: Sphere Books, 1988. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 208 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Murders of Christmas Past by Jonathan Goodman; The Christmas Sack Murder by Richard Whittington-Egan; The Ratcliffe Highway Horrors by Harold Furniss; Packaged Death by Albert Borowitz; The Case of Oscar Slater by Arthur Conan Doyle; The Distribution of Hannah Brown - Anonymous; A Bedroom in Pimlico by Richard D. Altick; The Slaying of Leon Beron by H. M. Walbrook; Murder of a Minder - Anonymous; Sam's New Year Resolution by Jonathan Goodman; and The Thirty Guinea Murder by Jonathan Goodman..

Sphere Books, London, 1988. Softcover. Good Condition. 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-that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales 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 Scotswoman whose demise seemed to have been satisfactorily explained by local constables, until Arthur Conan Doyle assumed the role of Sherlock Holmes) and 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,… Read More