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A murder for Christmas.(Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction)(Book Review)
Contemporary Review
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December 1, 2005|
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I am no gambler--having profited from the practical lesson learnt when, after placing a 100 to 1 bet on Golden Miller in 1934, the year he won the Grand National, the bookie welched on me, and paid out not a single one of my cigarette-card winnings!--but now, breaking the sensible habit of seven decades, I would be prepared to lay serious odds upon the likelihood that this Christmas will, as usual, see multitudes of little oblong, gift-wrapped packages spread about the feet of multitudes of Christmas trees, nestling in pillow-cases, or distorting the proportions of outsize ...
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