An English Murder
by Cyril Hare
Buy on AmazonA country house murder mystery classic, as a party find themselves snowed-in on Christmas Eve with a murderer among them... The snow is thick, the phone line is down, and no one is getting in or out of Warbeck Hall. All is set for a lovely Christmas, with friends and family gathered round the fire, except as the bells chime midnight, a murder is committed. But who is responsible? The scorned young lover? The lord’s passed-over cousin? The social climbing politician’s wife? The Czech history professor? The obsequious butler? And perhaps the real question is: Can they survive long enough to find out?
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"This is another one set at a country house over Christmas, a scenario beloved of mystery writers, because it provides a conveniently limited circle of suspects and a nicely festive atmosphere. Get the weekly Five Books newsletter However, this one was published in 1951 and tackles the ways in which British society has been changed by the Second World War . Hare takes on aristocratic antisemitism and the post war economic slump as well as delivering an entertaining murder mystery ."
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