| Description |
1 online resource (208 pages). |
| Series |
True crime history series |
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True crime history series.
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| Access |
Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crimeHere are ten murder cases of “the old-fashioned sort”—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 ménage à 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 “the greatest living master of true-crime literature” and by Julian Symons as “the premier investigator of crimes past. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
TRUE CRIME / Murder / General.
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Murder -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.
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Murder -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Goodman, Jonathan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Christmas murders. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2011. 9781606350829 (pbk. : alk. paper) 160635082X (DLC)2011003219 |
| ISBN |
9781612779300 (e-pub) |
| Standard No. |
9781612779300 |
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