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Though Father Brown sees through his lies and discovered that the brother isn’t the made he says he is; he is the adopted son, and the body is of the last brother he killed earlier, and has be pretending to be him the whole time. 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. Val has served as a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017.
A day or two after a local boy finds one of the old lady’s earrings in his pocket, but the cat isn’t bothered he’s more interested in his girlfriend.But hurry… It's Christmas Eve and if you don't find the murderer in time, you won't make it home in time to spend Christmas Day with your loved ones! It was interesting to have Rebus pop up in his own inimitable way and the ending of that story was satisfying in a way only Rebus can. The detective soon works out that it would have to be her cousin, who is a gymnast; he used her slippers and hand walked over to the lady's house and used the hedge to push himself up. Several of the stories here have already seen the light of day in other collections, so it feels like a bit of a cheat. There is a lovely story by Ellis Peters(The Trinity Cat),a rather sad one by Margery Allingham(On Christmas Day in the Morning),a closed room mystery by Julian Symons (the Santa Claus Club),a classic golden age one by John Dickson Carr (The Footprints in the Sky) and some stories by " newer" authors (Ian Ranking,Val Mcdermid.
Seamingly distressed, Father Brown tries to get all the details from the last remaining brother, including a letter tell that he’s next.
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.
He presents a powerful new perspective on the deep psychological mechanisms behind birthday parties, royal coronations, fire-walking and terrifying rites of passage. However, I did enjoy The footprint in the sky, A wife in a million, The dagger with wings and Cambrice tea. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.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. Cecily Gayford studied English at the University of Oxford, where she wrote her thesis on the 'golden age' detective stories of the 1930s and 1940s.
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