The Santa Klaus Murder

Resumen del libro

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered - by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus - with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plunged into chaos. Nearly every member of the party stands to reap some sort of benefit from Sir Osmond's death, but Santa Klaus, the one person who seems to have every opportunity to fire the shot, has no apparent motive.

Various members of the family have their private suspicions about the identity of the murderer, and the Chief Constable of Haulmshire, who begins his investigations by saying that he knows the family too well and that is his difficulty, wishes before long that he understood them better. In the midst of mistrust, suspicion and hatred, it emerges that there was not one Santa Klaus, but two. The Santa Klaus Murder is a classic country-house mystery that is now being made available to readers for the first time since its original publication in 1936.

Biografía del autor

Mavis Doriel Hay fue una novelista de la época dorada de la novela negra británica. Sus tres novelas de detectives son ahora libros únicos que se han convertido en objetos de colección. Experta en artesanía rural, acabó dedicando su obra y trayectoria profesional esta temática. Era conocida por sus conexiones con la alta aristocracia inglesa.