Christmas murder mysteries can be traced back to detective fiction’s golden age betweenWorld War Iand II. Before World War I, Christmas short stories anddetective fictionhad been steadily growing in popularity throughout Victorian and Edwardian Britain, eventually developing into the more complicated ...
“Grief in childhood is complicated with many other mysteries. I was taken into the bedroom where my mother lay dead; as they said, ‘to see her,’ in reality, as I at once knew, ‘to see it.’ There was nothing that a grown-up would call disfigurement – except for that total dis...