The mistletoe murder : and other stories
(Book)

A collection of four short stories (two of which feature the young poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh) . In the title story, a best-selling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier... in A Very Commonplace Murder, a clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a murder... The Boxdale Inheritance finds Dalgliesh implored by his godfather to reinvestigate a notorious murder, an investigation that will reveal a family secret so dark that Dalgliesh will firmly rebury it... and in The Twelve Clues of Christmas, Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that involves a family with an aversion to natural death.