The Christmas Egg (British Library Crime Classics)

Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes have been called to a gloomy flat off Islington High Street. An elderly woman-Princess Olga Karukhin, an emigrant of Civil War Russia-lies dead on the bed, and her trunk has been looted of its glittering treasure... Out in the festive chaos of the capital a colourful cast of suspects abound: the downtrodden grandson, a plutocratic jeweller, Bolsheviks with unfinished business? Beddoes and Nightingale have their work cut out in this tightly-paced, quirky and highly enjoyable jewel of the mystery genre--

• | Author: Mary Kelly
• | Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• | Publication Date: October 06, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1464212287
• | ISBN-13: 9781464212284