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🔍 Searching for authors that I have not read before, I thought the best route to take was through a book of short stories by various writers. Murder at Christmas fitted the bill. Of 10 shorts, only 1 was moderately satisfying. The Ascham by Michael Innes was set in a hotel where the guests believed that a man who fell from his balcony the previous year had been murdered by his wife. What will Holmes and Watson, also guests, discover if anything?

A collection of Festive-themed crimes from some of the best British crime writers of 20th century. Personally, I didn‘t take to the opening story featuring Margery Allingham‘s Albert Campion, or the closing one written by Dorothy L Sayers (is it heresy to not like Sayers?), but the rest were enjoyable.