Martin Edwards: Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries

Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries


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Crimson Snow brings together a dozen vintage crime stories set in winter. Welcome to a world of Father Christmases behaving oddly, a famous fictional detective in a Yuletide drama, mysterious tracks in the snow----, and some very unpleasant carol singers. The mysterious events chronicled by a distinguished array of contributors in this volume frequently take place at Christmas. There's no denying that the supposed season of goodwill is a time of year that lends itself to detective fiction. On a cold night, it's tempting to curl up by the fireside with a good mystery. And more than that, claustrophobic house parties, when people may be cooped up with long-estranged relatives, can provide plenty of motives for murder.Including forgotten stories by great writers such as Margery Allingham, as well as classic tales by less familiar crime novelists, each story in this selection is introduced by the great expert on classic crime, Martin Edwards. The resulting volume is an entertaining and atmospheric compendium of wintry delights.

In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today, Blackett did as much as anyone to defeat Nazi Germany, by revolutionizing the Allied anti-submarine effort through the disciplined, systematic implementation of simple mathematics and probability theory. This is the story of how British and American civilian intellectuals helped change the nature of Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries pdf twentieth-century warfare, by convincing disbelieving military brass to trust the new field of operational research. a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after Geronimo's sister Thea Stilton narrates this action-packed adventure!


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Author: Martin Edwards
Number of Pages: 288 pages
Published Date: 10 Nov 2016
Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780712356657
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