![]() ![]() ![]() Each detail of the carefully laid plan to murder a guest is explained and recounted with precision. ![]() James - Reading and sharing stories can help your child get to know sounds words. The Mistletoe Murder is told from the point of view of a bestselling crime novelist and revisits a suspicious death of 52 Christmases ago the successful writer is now the only member of that family still alive and can tell the authentic story. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, stepping down from the post in August 2013. The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories - Hardcover English by P. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and The National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). ![]() She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office. James (1920-2014) was born in Oxford and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. ![]()
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