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FREE MYSTERY IN WHITE: A CHRISTMAS CRIME STORY PDF J. Jefferson Farjeon | 256 pages | 15 Dec 2014 | The British Library Publishing Division | 9780712357708 | English | London, United Kingdom Thirties murder mystery novel is surprise runaway Christmas hit | The Independent | The Independent Dorothy L. Sayers characterized Farjeon as 'unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures. Read More. On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been lit and the table laid for tea—but no one is at home. Trapped together for Christmas, the passengers are seeking to unravel the secrets of the empty house when a murderer strikes in their midst. This classic Christmas mystery is now republished for the first time since the s, with an introduction by the award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards. Jefferson Farjeon - was the author of more than sixty crime and thriller novels. His work was The Great Snow began on the evening of December 19th. Shoppers smiled as they hurried home, speculating on the chances of a White Christmas. Their hopes were dampened when they turned on their wireless to learn from the smooth impersonal voice of the B. But on the 21st the snow returned, this time in earnest. Brown became white again. The sounds of traffic were deadened. Wheel marks, foot marks, all marks, were blotted out as soon as they were made. The sentimentalists rejoiced. It snowed all day and all night. On the 22nd it was still snowing. Snowballs flew, snowmen grew. Sceptical children regained their belief in fairyland, and sour Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story felt like Santa Claus, buying Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story presents than they had ever intended. The anti-cyclone from the North- West of Ireland had got lost in it. More snow came. It floated down from its limitless source like a vast extinguisher. Sweepers, eager for their harvest, waited in vain for the snow to stop. People wondered whether it would ever stop. It grew beyond the boundaries of local interest. By the 23rd it was news. By the 24th it was a nuisance. Practical folk cursed. Even the sentimentalists wondered how they were going to carry out their programmes. Traffic was dislocated. Cars and motor-coaches lost themselves. Railway gangs fought snowdrifts. The thought of the thaw, with its stupendous task of conversion, became increasingly alarming. The elderly bore, however, who formed one of half a dozen inmates of a third-class compartment on the She was a chorus girl, and her own globe-trotting had been limited to the provincial towns. Her present destina- tion was Manchester, which in this weather seemed quite far enough off. Well, one or the other. I was a kid at the time. We got sick Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story the damn stuff! All she saw was a curtain of white flakes. We must Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story stopped an hour. He did not have spots, but looked as though he ought to have had. He ought to have been in bed. The clerk smiled faintly. A real, die-hard platinum blonde. Marvellous person to take out to supper, if one had the courage for that sort of thing. He even believed the chorus girl might accept an invitation. There was something vulnerable about her which her assurance attempted to cloak. But the clerk was even more impressed by the other young lady in the compartment, the one who was sitting on the other side of the bore. She was dark. She had a tall, supple figure. The chorus girl was rather small. He felt sure she played a good game of tennis, swam and rode. He visualised her cantering over moors and sailing over five-barred gates, with her brother trying vainly to catch her up. Her brother was sit- ting in the corner opposite her. You knew it was her brother from their conversation, and you could also see it Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story their resemblance. They called each other David and Lydia. Lydia was the next to speak. Her voice had a low, rich quality. The catastrophe of the snowdrift and the camaraderie of Christmas were loosening tongues. The bore alone had needed no encouragement. The clerk coloured, though his cheeks were already flushed with fever. She was even more trying. But her dutiful nephew visited her periodically, partly for the sake of his financial future, and partly because he had a secret weakness for lonely people. A little silence fell upon the party. The only one who thought it mattered was the chorus girl. A nervous restlessness possessed her soul, and she declared afterwards that she was sure she had been the first to move unconsciously into the shadow of coming events. But her vague anticipations were not centred solely in Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story old man in the corner. She, too, had noticed the quick little, half-sly glances of the elderly bore, who, as she knew, was not too elderly to think about her in a certain way. If Jessie Noyes was very conscious of her physical attractions she claimed it was her business to be. She was well aware of both her power and the limitation of her power, and while the power, despite its small thrills, gave her a secret dread, the limitation was a secret sorrow. Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story wonderful to be able to conquer a man wholly and eternally, instead of being just an ephemeral taste! Still, she was not bitter. She was anxious and nervous and warm. Life was life…. The question was addressed, not too wisely, to the bore. He was neither dead nor asleep. As a matter of fact, he had heard every word that had been uttered since the train had steamed out of Euston at I am on my way to interview King Charles the First. With head, or without? We are to meet in an old house at Naseby. Frankly I am not very confident that the interview will occur. Charles the First may be bashful, or he may turn out to be just some ordinary cavalier hiding from Cromwell and Fairfax. After three hundred years, identity becomes a trifle confused. Simply the imagination of certain nervous people who think they have seen him about. His tone was disapproving. The elderly bore took up the battle. Stuff and nonsense! In Rangoon. Though faint, the source of that was solid enough. The only true language has no words, which explains, sir, why some people who speak too many words have no understanding. There are others, of course, whose opinions I respect, who disagree with me. They consider that you, sir, are doomed to exist perpetually in some form or other. 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