Who Killed Father Christmas? And Other Unseasonable Demises; Patricia Moyes mystery stories Bill DeAndrea and on a date that

and on a date that takes a dark turn

Tom Mead is a Derbyshire mystery writer and aficionado of Golden Age Crime Fiction

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Susanna investigates a body found in a dovecote

Who Killed Father Christmas? And Other Unseasonable Demises; Patricia Moyes mystery stories Bill DeAndrea and on a date thatEarly in Patricia Moyes's career, Vivian Mort wrote that she "put the who back into whodunit," and The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection called her "one of the finest practitioners in the classic form." Who Killed Father Christmas? contains twenty short stories ranging from holiday homicides to Caribbean crimes to village villainies. The book also has a short detective novel, "The Holly Wreath" set at Christmastime. Each is told with quiet warmth