![]() ![]() Do not look for this book to seem modern-it isn’t. Lost to readers for many years, he seems to have been rediscovered, and becoming acquainted with old Mordecai Tremaine (the male version of Miss Marple?) was fun. ![]() This book was such a great find! Written by Francis Duncan (pseudonym for William Underhill) who wrote his first detective story in 1936, as a bit of a sideline, while he worked at another job. The reader quickly realizes there will eventually be a murder mystery for him to work on, in his quiet, methodical way. ![]() Among the many guests he invites to enjoy the holiday this season, is Mordecai Tremaine, a gentle older man, a lifelong bachelor with a love of romance, who is also an astute observer of human nature, and known to have abilities to solve mysteries. Picture old Sherbrooke House, during the 1940’s, a genteel British country manor, owned by Benedict Graeme-a man who passionately loves Christmas. ![]()
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