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

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As the chance of the train getting going becomes more and more remote, the trapped passengers agree to leave the carriage and head for the nearby village. Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The supernatural aspects of the story are heavily implied to be true, but never outright confirmed. Les fans d'Agatha Christie ou des 'whodunnits' / 'mysteries' de cette grande époque apprécieront à coup sûr 'Mystery in White'.

He is such an insufferable example of the trope that all of his carriage-mates are willing to face a snow storm just to get away from him. The opening to the book is certainly one of them, as Farjeon captures the British attitude towards snow perfectly: ‘It grew beyond the boundaries of local interest. If you're one who enjoys the classic English mysteries like Agatha Christy's or Dorothy Sayers' tales, you will enjoy this. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man.

The sharp-eyed Maltby sees and reveals other irregularities, as well, gradually making the other characters — and the reader — more and more uneasy. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I think that's a credit to the British Library, which has not only done the important work of archiving this material, but now brought it to a wider audience," he said.

Mehrere Passagiere machen sich auf den Weg, um einen anderen Bahnhof zu erreichen, in der Hoffnung, dort einen Zug erwischen zu können. British Library’s Poisoned Pen Press has been steadily bringing back Golden Age mystery novels, including two, thus far, by J. So bearing in mind that this story is set in the 20s after the 1st world war and therefore some of the language and vocabulary might seem old fashioned , the story is so clever and well written and keeps you guessing. Our protagonists are a group of strangers who share a compartment on a train and get stuck in a snowstorm just days before Christmas.

The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. When Jessie twists her ankle on a particularly tricky bit of ground, the adventurers are lucky enough to find a house where they can ask for refuge. The novel's quite fun in its way, but the denouement is far too complex and confused (I sort of lost count of the number of murderers), and irritatingly there's a coyly roguish suggestion that Maltby's psychic abilities may have played their part in the unraveling. Indeed, that is the main job of all politicians who, through their own inefficiency, muddle nations into war.