Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story (British Library Crime Classics)

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Un petit groupe de voyageurs, dont le train est bloqué en pleine campagne, décide de tenter sa chance et de braver la tempête.

Hopelessly lost, they’re reunited when they all take refuge in Valley House, a dwelling where the kettle is boiling and the table hospitably set for tea even though the place is deserted. On a holiday r/t NY-DC it offered distraction from the miserable countryside flying past Amtrak windows.We're a very small team operating in an environment that is quite tough on independent publishers, so we're extremely proud of our sales figures: up 400 per cent in November on the previous year. There were no huge surprises here---I have been reading mysteries most of my life---but the presentation was fun, there was just the right amount of suspense.

They wonder if they’ve made a rash decision, one that may lead to their demise miraculously when they come upon a house, ring the bell and when receiving no answer find the door unlocked, no one home but a fire is burning. Sayers wrote that 'Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures'. It was just too little too late and felt as if the author couldn’t make up his mind what genre he wanted to be writing. British Library’s Poisoned Pen Press has been steadily bringing back Golden Age mystery novels, including two, thus far, by J. Although the house appears to be empty, the stranded group find, to their surprise, that fires are burning in the grates, a kettle sits on the stove and tea is laid out – but who for?Yes Thirteen Guests is a detective novel, but I don’t think Farjeon worked best with pure detection. This is not exactly a ghost story, but there certainly is a rather creepy element to the whole story, though it’s handled lightly and left up to the reader to decide. David Carrington, brother to Lydia, tracks footprints outside and uncovers a bloody hammer and a suspiciously shaped mound in the waist-high snow. In addition he was known for his keen humour and flashing wit but he also used sinister and terrifying storylines quite freely. Jefferson Farjeon novel I could find in the Kindle format: Mystery in White, first published the following year.