Crime at Christmas
By (Author) C. H. B. Kitchin
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
21st October 2015
1st October 2015
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Classic crime and mystery fiction
Crime and mystery: cosy mystery
823.912
Paperback
256
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 14mm
210g
It's Christmas at Hampstead's Beresford Lodge.
A group of relatives and intimate friends gather to celebrate the festive season, but their party is rudely interrupted by a violent death. It isn't long before a second body is discovered. Can the murderer be one of those in the great house
The stockbroker sleuth Malcolm Warren investigates, in this brilliantly witty mystery.
'Kitchin's knowledge of the crevices of human nature lifts his crime fiction out of the category of puzzledom and into the realm of the detective novel. He was, in short, ahead of his day.' H. R. F. Keating
C. H. B. Kitchin was born in Yorkshire in 1895. He read classics at Exeter College, Oxford and, after serving in France during the First World War, was called to the Bar in 1924. His novels include Streamers Waving (1925), Crime at Christmas (1934) and A Short Walk in Williams Park (1971), which was published after his death in 1967.