TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meredith,Anne
AU  - Edwards,Martin
AU  - Malleson,Lucy
TI  - Portrait of a murderer: a Christmas crime story 
T2  - British Library Crime Classics
SN  - 0712352457
AV  - PR6025.A438 M47 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - British Library
KW  - Christmas stories
KW  - Father and child
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Murder
KW  - Murderers
KW  - fast
N1  - Originally published in 1933 by Victor Gollancz; P.B; P.B; 1934
N2  - Adrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through violence, at the hands of one of his own children, at Christmas, 1931.Thus begins a classic crime novel published in 1933, a riveting portrait of the psychology of a murderer. Each December, Adrian Gray invites his extended family to stay at his lonely house, Kings Poplars. None of Gray's six surviving children is fond of him; several have cause to wish him dead. The family gathers on Christmas Eve - and by the following morning, their wish has been granted
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