PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Featuring authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Ruth Rendell, E. F. Benson, W.W. Jacobs and more, selected by Cecily Gayford. Cecily Gayford studied English at the University of Oxford, where she immersed herself obsessively in the gothic, morbid and mysterious side of literature. Now a Publishing Director, she has worked at Profile Books for eleven years. A life-long scaredy-cat, she once saw a ghost in a hotel room.
With Cecily Gayford in charge, we are on safe ground * Daily Mail * Praise for Vintage Murder series -- : Has everything you might want ... take this little book to the beach [and] relax in the sun while reading of battered corpses -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday * An excellent collection of short stories by ten top-class writers -- Marcel Berlins * The Times Books of the Year * Perfect for a quick fix of golden-age crime ... this collection of short winter chills is well worth reading by candlelight before turning in on Christmas Eve -- Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal and The Twyford Code * The Sunday Times * Short, clever and puzzling murder tales test the brains of the most avid crime reader ... delectable * On Magazine * Looking forward to Christmas? [The Vintage Murder series] is a fine way to start it. It's a cracker -- Amy Myers An impressive tome by some great names ... there isn't actually a bum note in the entire collection, not a single one you could skip through and not miss it - which is quite some feat. To paraphrase Nick Cook's famous Crimewatch sign off, just don't have nightmares after reading it. -- Sarah Morgan * On Magazine *
