The Christmas Egg - Kelly, Mary
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"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"--

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Produktbeschreibung
"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"--
Autorenporträt
Mary Kelly (1927-2017) was a pen name of Mary Theresa Coolican, an English crime writer best known for the Inspector Brett Nightingale series and her Gold Dagger Award-winning novel The Spoilt Kill. The Christmas Egg, first published in 1958, is a fine example of her unique and unconventional mystery writing.