Dalgliesh’s godfather implores him to reinvestigate a notorious murder that might ease the godfather’s mind about an inheritance, but which will reveal a truth that even the supremely upstanding Adam Dalgliesh will keep to himself. A best-selling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier. A “pedantic, respectable, censorious” clerk’s secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a murder. Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is “pure Agatha Christie.”. James’s legions of fans-and anyone who enjoys the pleasures of a masterfully wrought whodunit.įour previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time–swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author’s own word, add up to a delightful “entertainment.” Playful and ingenious, shot through with narrative elegance and sly humor, The Mistletoe Murder is a treat for P. And in the title story, a bestselling crime novelist describes the crime in which she herself was involved some fifty years ago. “The Boxdale Inheritance” finds Dalgliesh reinvestigating a notorious murder at the insistence of his godfather-only to uncover the darkest of family secrets. In “A Very Commonplace Murder,” a respectable clerk’s secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a terrible crime.
In “The Twelve Clues of Christmas,” James’s iconic Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh, is drawn into a case that is pure Agatha Christie. Now, for the first time, four of the best are collected here. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Throughout her illustrious career as the Queen of Crime, P.
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