{"product_id":"christmas-murders","title":"Christmas Murders","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are ten murder cases of “the old-fashioned sort”—evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction—that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York (where a gentleman named Molineux provided a drastic cure for hangovers by putting cyanide in a gift-wrapped bottle of Bromo Seltzer) to an apartment in Glasgow (home of a wealthy Scotswoman whose demise seemed to have been satisfactorily explained by local constables, until Arthur Conan Doyle assumed the role of Sherlock Holmes) and from a builder’s workshop in North London (site of a murder committed by a man called Furnace, who suited his criminal action to his name) to the elegant dwelling of a ménage à trois near the Thames (scene of a puzzling poisoning that, years later, Raymond Chandler tried, unofficially, to solve).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Christmas Murders,\u003c\/em\u003e Jonathan Goodman has collected stories as fascinating and compulsively readable as one would expect from a writer described by Jacques Barzun as “the greatest living master of true-crime literature” and by Julian Symons as “the premier investigator of crimes past.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kent State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55332051091800,"sku":"9781606350829","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781606350829_528b1cef-138c-4da9-bea9-8c0720631800.jpg?v=1778673636","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/christmas-murders","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}