P.D. James
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“The Murder of Santa Claus” is a Locked-Room Christmas-Mystery (two great sub-genres for the price of one!). It can be found in a volume called Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P.D. James. It is a story told 40+ years after a Christmas Eve murder in an atmospheric Cotswold manor house. P.D. James uses Read more
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The scope of the short story is inevitably restricted and this means it is most effective when it deals with a single incident or one dominant idea. It is the originality and strength of this idea which largely determines the success of the story. Although it is far less complex in structure than a novel, Read more
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P.D. James (1920-2014) had to leave school at the age of 16 to take care of younger siblings and because her father did not believe that women needed higher education. Anyone who has ever read P.D. James knows that this early departure from formal education does not appear to have hampered her ability to become Read more
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