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One of the Big Three Women Detective Writers" - So wrote the London Observer about Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell (1901-1983)

Tom Mead is a Derbyshire mystery writer and aficionado of Golden Age Crime Fiction

This enlarged edition includes – for the first time– the newly discovered short stories

he is willing to enter the fray

Who Killed Father Christmas? And Other Unseasonable Demises; Patricia Moyes mystery stories Bill DeAndrea ) regularly bristle at aEarly in Patricia Moyes's career, Vivian Mort wrote that she "put the who back into whodunit," and The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection called her "one of the finest practitioners in the classic form." Who Killed Father Christmas? contains twenty short stories ranging from holiday homicides to Caribbean crimes to village villainies. The book also has a short detective novel, "The Holly Wreath" set at Christmastime. Each is told with quiet warmth