
Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere So when Sir Osmond Melbury the family patriarch is discovered
- by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus
- with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day the festivities are plunged into chaos Nearly every member of the party stands to reap some sort of benefit from Sir Osmond's death but Santa Klaus the one person who seems to have every opportunity to fire the shot has no apparent motive Various members of the family have their private suspicions about the identity of the murderer & the Chief Constable of Haulmshire who begins his investigations by saying that he knows the family too well & that is his difficulty wishes before long that he understood them better In the midst of mistrust suspicion & hatred it emerges that there was not one Santa Klaus but two The Santa Klaus Murder is a classic country-house mystery that is now being made available to readers for the first time since its original publication in 1936