![]() ![]() ![]() Adam Dalgliesh assisting and ultimately impressing his superior officer by producing no less than a dozen clues that lead to the murderer of the eminently dispensable paterfamilias whose suicide note is just another red herring. “The Twelve Clues of Christmas” shows newly minted Sgt. The list of suspects is so short that it’s hard to imagine how James will pull off any surprises, but many readers will gasp at the very last sentence. In the 1991 title story, a mystery author recalls the murder of an obnoxious guest during an anxious Christmas visit in 1940. ![]() Murder comes for Christmas in two of these deceptively decorous tales. A slender collection that reprints four of the 20 mystery stories James left behind at her death in 2014. ![]()
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