The Santa Klaus Murder

Name: The Santa Klaus Murder
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Mavis Doriel Hay

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British Library
01 October 2015

Fiction & Literature; Classic crime

Series: British Library Crime Classics

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. Nearly every member of the party stands to reap some sort of benefit from Sir Osmond's death, but Santa Klaus, the one person who seems to have every opportunity to fire the shot, has no apparent motive. Various members of the family have their private suspicions about the identity of the murderer, and the Chief Constable of Haulmshire, who begins his investigations by saying that he knows the family too well and that is his difficulty, wishes before long that he understood them better. In the midst of mistrust, suspicion and hatred, it emerges that there was not one Santa Klaus, but two. The Santa Klaus Murder is a classic country-house mystery that is now being made available to readers for the first time since its original publication in 1936.

By: Mavis Doriel Hay
Imprint: British Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 132mm,
ISBN: 9780712356305
ISBN 10: 0712356304
Series: British Library Crime Classics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 October 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

M. Doriel Hay (1894-1979) was a novelist of the golden age of British crime fiction. Her three detective novels were published in the 1930s and are now rare and highly collectable books. She was an expert on rural handicraft and wrote several books on the subject.