{"product_id":"the-christmas-murders-paperback-3","title":"The Christmas Murders - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGoodman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlbert Borowitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Goodman, \u003c\/strong\u003e considered to have been Britain's leading crime historian, died in January 2008. After service in the RAF, he began his career in the theater, working first as a stage manager and then as a producer. While with the theater in Liverpool, Goodman, who had already written a crime novel and the entertaining \u003cem\u003eBloody Versicles\u003c\/em\u003e (reprinted in the United States by The Kent State University Press, 1993), an anthology of rhymes in crime, researched the celebrated case of William Wallace, who was convicted in 1931 of the murder of his wife Julia. \u003cem\u003eThe Killing of Julia Wallace\u003c\/em\u003e (1969) was a great success, and Goodman's career took off. The Kent State University Press has published Goodman's \u003cem\u003eThe Passing of Starr Faithfull \u003c\/em\u003e(1996), \u003cem\u003eTracks to Murder\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), and \u003cem\u003eMurder on Several Occasions\u003c\/em\u003e (2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.55 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47395265773817,"sku":"9781606350829","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/C-URC2HCD69781606350829_13c896bd-7467-44f1-9db5-015e6e619ad7.webp?v=1770265139","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-christmas-murders-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}