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

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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. Though there is a detective and his wife attend a murder mystery party, that has a MP who is trying to make it public who criminals, the detective clocks Santa. This one Father Brown goes to visit a local man who has lost his two elder brothers, who were killed by their adoptive brother. She soon though starts to recale going outside into the snow, and remembers the snowglobe in the house of her attacked neighbour.

Though the murderer, made a mistake and left behind evidence which lead the detective to find out who it was. Most were what I'd class as "traditional" mysteries, there's nothing gory or gruesome in any of them. As my last Christmas murder mystery was a disappointment, I jumped right into this with fingers crossed the title really meant what it read. I was also missing some form of symbolism or higher literary meaning, which the likes of Dostoevsky and Wilde manage to incorporate so superbly in their own short stories.I would recommend reading a whole short story in one sitting though as I tended to lose the thread if I stopped. She had an argument the day before with the woman and her footprints are in the snow, but deep down she knows that she didn’t attack the old woman. Chief Superintendent Seb Adjei-Addoh, local policing commander for Southwark, said patrols will be increased in the area over the coming days.

However, just because many of the others are quite short doesn't mean that they fail as stories, just that they tend to focus on a relatively small element of the 'how could that have happened? I’ve never been a huge fan of short stories, there’s never quite enough oomph in them and I’m always left wildly disappointed.At the beginning I thought it was too much of the English countryside, but then it offered different atmospheres. I'd be very surprised if we see any new Christmas set short stories next year as it looks as though the publishing world has moved from crime to ghost stories. It was full of short stories, all based around Christmas and the blurb made it sound gruesome, cold blooded and scary. A Wife in A Million by Val McDermid- in which a disgruntled wife is, instead of handing out holiday cheer, out slipping a little arsenic into grocery items and DS Maggie Staniforth is on the case and dealing with her own disgruntled wife. The detective makes Santa hand over his stolen goods and lets him go free, though he has food hidden in his clothes!

Wellcome Collection is a free visitor destination that explores the connections between medicine, life and art. Val McDermid has one of the most powerful tales with her contribution entitled 'A Wife In a Million'. Some of my favorites in this collection are: 'The Trinity Cat' by Ellis Peters that features a Church cat who may be the key witness in a murder. Val McDermid has published twenty-eight crime novels, which have sold millions of copies worldwide, been translated into sixteen languages and won multiple awards.A Wife in a Million by Val McDermid, a rather chilling story told in just sixteen pages, As Dark as Christmas Gets by Lawrence Block, masterful tale about a missing manuscript told in forty pages and No Sanity Clause by Ian Rankin. Seamingly distressed, Father Brown tries to get all the details from the last remaining brother, including a letter tell that he’s next.