![]() ![]() The writing has the form popular at the time, in which the characters speak with the somewhat proper, even fussy, sort of polite style that may now sound a little stilted. ![]() Do not look for this book to seem modern-it isn’t. Lost to readers for many years, he seems to have been rediscovered, and becoming acquainted with old Mordecai Tremaine (the male version of Miss Marple?) was fun. This book was such a great find! Written by Francis Duncan (pseudonym for William Underhill) who wrote his first detective story in 1936, as a bit of a sideline, while he worked at another job. The reader quickly realizes there will eventually be a murder mystery for him to work on, in his quiet, methodical way. Among the many guests he invites to enjoy the holiday this season, is Mordecai Tremaine, a gentle older man, a lifelong bachelor with a love of romance, who is also an astute observer of human nature, and known to have abilities to solve mysteries. ![]() Picture old Sherbrooke House, during the 1940’s, a genteel British country manor, owned by Benedict Graeme-a man who passionately loves Christmas. ![]()
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