Jonathan Goodman

Christmas Murders (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime Here are ten murder cases of "e;the old-fashioned sort"e;-evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction-that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York (where a gentleman named Molineux provided a drastic cure for hangovers by putting cyanide in a gift-wrapped bottle of Bromo Seltzer) to an apartment in Glasgow (home of a wealthy Scotswoman whose demise seemed to have been satisfactorily explained by local constables, until Arthur Conan Doyle assumed the role of Sherlock Holmes) and from a builder's workshop in North London (site of a murder committed by a man called Furnace, who suited his criminal action to his name) to the elegant dwelling of a mnage trois near the Thames (scene of a puzzling poisoning that, years later, Raymond Chandler tried, unofficially, to solve).In The Christmas Murders, Jonathan Goodman has collected stories as fascinating and compulsively readable as one would expect from a writer described by Jacques Barzun as "e;the greatest living master of true-crime literature"e; and by Julian Symons as "e;the premier investigator of crimes past."e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Kent State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612779300
• Artikelnr.: 40617336