Murder Takes a Holiday

For most of us, a summer holiday is an opportunity to escape from it all: to lounge on warm sands or sip a cool drink in the shade of a city square. But, as the characters in this murderously good collection of classic crime stories discover to their cost ... trouble has a nasty habit of finding you out. From a body found on a beach without a single footprint, to a lemonade stand whose wares appear to have been poisoned and a Wimbledon final ruined by the mysterious disappearance of the championship player, these tales of murder and malice will take you on the trip of a lifetime. So pour that glass of Pimms, grab your sunhat and indulge your dark side: these stories will chill you to your very core, even in a heatwave ...

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Cecily (Editor) Gayford, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy Sayers, Dorothy L Sayers, Various
• Assisted by: Cecil Gayford (Editor), Cecily Gayford (Editor), Gayford Cecily (Editor)
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.05.2020
• EAN: 9781788165754
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-575-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Crime, Short Stories, Crime and mystery fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction