Murder On Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season (Vintage Murders)

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They may have improved if I had persevered but I had other books that I would rather be reading over the festive period. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A cheerful, but sometimes sinister collection tales of murder and mystery in and around the festive season.

From a Santa Claus with a grudge to a cat who knows who killed its owner on Christmas Eve, these are stories to enjoy - and be mystified by - in front of a roaring fire, mince pie in hand.On Christmas Day in the Morning by Margery Allingham- in which the postman is killed on Christmas morning causing quite a commotion but this still turns out to be a heartwarming tale to end on. And even though I am a big fan of Rankin and I enjoyed 'No Sanity Clause', my favourite was the story from Lawrence Block which did not contain an actual murder, but described a mystery nevertheless. There are six, seven to eight suspects all who have read and handled the manuscript throughout the night, though none of them took it. It was full of short stories, all based around Christmas and the blurb made it sound gruesome, cold blooded and scary.

Possibly having as close a remit as crimes committed on one particular day is too limiting but I found the ten stories presented here lacklustre at best.When a investigator from Scotland Yard turns up to have a go investigating he discovers a large footprint on a hedge which wouldn’t be able to hold a cat's weight let alone a humans. Discover your next non-fiction read and brilliant book gifts in the Profile newsletter, and find books to help you live well with Souvenir Press. What I enjoyed most is that the stories selected for MURDER ON CHRISTMAS EVE are not just modern, some are classic stories written decades earlier.