The only sympathetic portrayal of a blackmailer I have ever read…

December 25, 2025

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“The Mistletoe Murder” has a great “Aha!” at the end, “A Very Commonplace Murder” is not commonplace and not a single murder and will leave you with a creep of horror across your skin, “The Boxdale Inheritance” is a perfectly lovely little piece of bait-and-switch with the only sympathetic portrayal of a blackmailer I have ever read, and in “The Twelve Clues of Christmas” James and Dalgliesh both have their tongues firmly in their cheeks throughout.

–from my review of P.D. James’ The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories


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