On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:03:35 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:

>On 2006-07-26, Chris McGonnell > wrote:
>
>> There's a lot of short stories written about ghosts or murder at
>> Christmas,
>
>Ghost of Christmas past?

Yep. "A Christmas Carol" is one cited as an early tale. It's longer
than it should be because Dickens was being paid by the word.

>> which is some sort of Engerlish tradition that I'd never
>> heard of before I received "Christmas Crimes" as a Christmas present
>> last Christmas.
>
>Hmm. Not sure about Christmas, but murder is as popular in TV
>drama now as it was in novels and plays when Shepherd Mead wrote "How
>to Live like a Lord".

No, mystery or ghost stories set during Christmas, which is some kind
of tradition. Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" is
one. Some of Davies' stories were printed in Ellery Queen's Mystery
Magazine -- December issue, of course.

I think murder on television died with Angela Lansbury.

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Chris McG.
Harming humanity since 1951.
"My dog ate my gratitude journal." -- Paula

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