{"product_id":"the-christmas-murders-9781606350829","title":"The Christmas Murders","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHere are ten murder cases of \"the old-fashioned sort\"--evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction--that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York (where a gentleman named Molineux provided a drastic cure for hangovers by putting cyanide in a gift-wrapped bottle of Bromo Seltzer) to an apartment in Glasgow (home of a wealthy Scotswoman whose demise seemed to have been satisfactorily explained by local constables, until Arthur Conan Doyle assumed the role of Sherlock Holmes) and from a builder's workshop in North London (site of a murder committed by a man called Furnace, who suited his criminal action to his name) to the elegant dwelling of a ménage à trois near the Thames (scene of a puzzling poisoning that, years later, Raymond Chandler tried, unofficially, to solve).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Christmas Murders, \u003c\/em\u003e Jonathan Goodman has collected stories as fascinating and compulsively readable as one would expect from a writer described by Jacques Barzun as \"the greatest living master of true-crime literature\" and by Julian Symons as \"the premier investigator of crimes past.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kent State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606350829\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.55h x 5.57w x 0.64d","brand":"Goodman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52136401502389,"sku":"9781606350829","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-christmas-murders-9781606350829","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}