The Santa Klaus Murder is a mystery novel set in England in 1935. This 1930s novel is a proper Golden Age murder mystery, the kind where you need a floor plan, a timetable, and a couple of family trees to follow it all completely.It's a country house Christmas with a rich old gentleman and a bunch of heirs and prospective heirs whose relationships are more complex than they seem at first.The plot is complex, but the writer plays fair - an alert reader might be able to guess the killer!- NetGalley This is another British Library Crime Classic from Poisoned Pen Press.-Guy Savage " NetGalley "
We see that stubbornness runs in the Melbury blood, for Aunt Mildred, who helped steer most of the Melbury children towards "suitable" marriages, now sees the consequences of her work but refuses to admit that perhaps she was wrong.There's a clue thrown out very early in the book which signals the solution, and while The Santa Klaus Murder has nothing new to offer to the genre, it is an enjoyable, seasonal read.The book comes complete with a plan of the ground floor of Flaxmere House and a cast of characters.Review copy. Philip Cheriton's chatty account gives a nice history of the family and various relationships, and this is in wonderful contrast to Aunt Mildred's fussy, critical narrative. Mavis Doriel Hay's The Santa Klaus Murder is a traditional country house murder mystery - so that means a limited number of suspects, but in the case of this novel there are multiple narrators as various characters give their versions of events.The chapters told from the viewpoints of various guests are a nice twist and author Mavis Doriel Hay manages to convey a different tone to each of these chapters as they pave the way to the crime.
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