The Top Ten Yuletide Mysteries Part II An English Murder, Cyril Hare, 1951 I know this stocking is positively sagging with British books, but the Brits essentially invented both the Christmas holiday and the Christmas mystery, of which this is a ripping example. In real life, its author, Cyril Hare, was Gordon Clark, the […]
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The Top Ten Yuletide Mysteries Part I
The Top Ten Yuletide Mysteries The Top Ten Yuletide Mysteries Things moving around on the roof in the middle of the night. Strange men coming down the chimney. Packages everywhere, marked Do Not Open. Guys wearing fake beards, disguised as a third-century saint, Nicholas of Myra, ringing bells and commanding passersby to toss money into […]