The Christmas Clue - the most puzzling festive whodunnit to gift this Christmas

About the author

Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. Her debut, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels to feature Josephine Tey - one of Britain's finest Golden Age crime writers - and was dramatised for BBC Radio 4. Several of Nicola's novels have been listed for the CWA Gold and Historical Daggers, and Sorry for the Dead was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. She is a member of the Detection Club, and in 2024 curated the acclaimed exhibition Murder by the Book: a celebration of twentieth century British crime fiction at Cambridge University Library.

She is also the author of Stanley and Elsie, a novel about the painter Stanley Spencer, and lives with her partner in Cambridge and Cornwall.

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Upson, Upson Nicola
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.09.2026
• EAN: 9780571395040
• ISBN: 978-0-571-39504-0
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Christmas, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Historical mysteries, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Holidays & Vacation