A Christmas Tragedy, Baroness Orczy
A Christmas Tragedy, Baroness Orczy
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A Christmas Tragedy

Author: Baroness Orczy

Narrator: Anne Dover

Unabridged: 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 12/01/2018

Synopsis

A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. A Christmas Eve party at Clevere Hall ends in tragedy when the host is found stabbed to death. Major Ceely certainly wasn’t short of enemies, but who hated him enough to commit the crime?

About Baroness Orczy

Baroness Orczy was the daughter of a musician. Educated in Paris and Brussels, she then studied art in London, where she exhibited some of her work at the Royal Academy. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL was the first success in her long writing career which encompassed both plays and novels.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on November 08, 2019

I thought this was a pretty good. although as another reviewer pointed out, there's nothing really in keeping with the Christmas season. In fact I didn't notice that it was Christmas. Anyway, a mean old man gets murdered and it is assumed the fiance of his daughter did it, but everything is not alwa......more

Goodreads review by Meg on January 01, 2024

Lady Molly is a guest at a Christmas house party thrown by Major Ceely and his daughter, Margaret. On Christmas Eve, the disagreeable Major is called out in the middle of the night to thwart a cattle poacher but no sooner does he step outside then he is stabbed in the back and killed. The prime susp......more

Goodreads review by Yibbie on December 08, 2018

There really isn’t anything Christmassy about this story. It’s by far more tragedy than anything else. It’s really a pretty straightforward mystery. The mean old father dies and the daughter’s beau is the main suspect. Lady Molly is there to save the innocent and capture the guilty. Really the basi......more

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