Mavis Doriel Hay
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Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
"Despite its title, this British Library Crime Classics reissue of a 1936 novel isn't just an entertaining Christmas read. It's a fine example of the old-time country-house murder mystery, with loads of suspects, lots of period atmosphere, and much caustic wit." —Booklist
Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere....
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An unpleasant spinster meets her end on the stairs of the Belsize Park Tube station.
All of the residents of the Frampton Private Hotel in Hampstead knew that Euphemia Pongleton was in the habit of walking one stop closer to the center of London to save a penny's fare on the Underground. But, they hardly expected to hear that she was found on the stairs at Belsize Park, strangled to death with her terrier's leash on her way to a dental appointment....
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The Mavis Doriel Hay Collection. Illustrated is a captivating anthology that brings together three of Mavis Doriel Hay's most intriguing and atmospheric crime novels: The Santa Klaus Murder, Death on the Cherwell, and Murder Underground. Known for her sharp wit, clever plotting, and exploration of social dynamics, Hay delivers engaging mysteries that transport readers to mid-20th-century Britain, where seemingly ordinary settings conceal dark secrets.
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When undergraduates from Oxford's all-girl Persephone College meet on a cold and dreary January afternoon by the River Cherwell, they are surprised by a canoe floating, apparently empty down the river.
But as it passes close by beneath them they quickly realise that it is not empty and that there is someone lying in it. They pull it ashore only to discover that it is the body of their erstwhile bursar, Miss Myra Denning.
It seems at first as though...
