Individual despatch times for each item will be given at checkout. Collection times will vary depending on availability of items. During checkout we will give you a cumulative estimated date for delivery.įree UK Standard Delivery on Orders Over £25 (2nd Class)Ĭlick and Collect and Delivery to Store is available for all our shops. These should be added to the availability message time, to determine when the goods will arrive. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, stepping down from the post in August 2013.Īll delivery times quoted are the average, and cannot be guaranteed. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and The National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She was an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. All that experience was used in her novels. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. James (1920-2014) was born in Oxford and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. James shows her expert control of the short-story form, conjuring motives and scenarios with complete conviction, and each with a satisfying twist in the tail. The punishments inflicted on the guilty are fittingly severe, but here they are meted out by the unseen forces of natural justice rather than the institutions of the law. Bullying schoolmasters receive their comeuppance, unhappy marriages and childhoods are avenged, a murder in the small hours of Christmas Day puts an end to the vicious new lord of the manor, and, from the safety of his nursing home, an octogenarian exerts exquisite retribution. The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories contained four of these perfectly formed stories, and this companion volume contains a further six, published here together for the first time.Īs the six murderous tales unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each. James, was a past master of the short story, weaving together motifs of the Golden Age of crime-writing with deep psychological insight to create gripping, suspenseful tales.
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