New edition for Crime at Christmas by C H B Kitchin please

[Janet]

* Title - Crime at Christmas
* Author(s) name(s) - C. H. B. Kitchin
* ISBN (or ASIN) - 9780571325931
* Publisher - Faber & Faber
* Publication date - of this edition - 1 Oct. 2015 (originally published 1934)
* Format - paperback
* Description - Does this mean 'blurb'? If so:

'There we were, all gathered together for a Christmas party, and plunged suddenly into gloom.'

It's Christmas at Hampstead's Beresford Lodge. A group of relatives and intimate friends gather to celebrate the festive season, but their party is rudely interrupted by a violent death. It isn't long before a second body is discovered. Can the murderer be one of those in the great house? The stockbroker sleuth Malcolm Warren investigates, in this brilliantly witty mystery.

'Kitchin's knowledge of the crevices of human nature lifts his crime fiction out of the category of puzzledom and into the realm of the detective novel. He was, in short, ahead of his day.' H. R. F. Keating

* Page count - 250

* Link to cover - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crime-at-Chri...

Title search results on Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...

Thanks in advance :)

[XXX]

Working on it

edit :oops, done by someone else already

[lethe]

Corrected the author name and combined all editions:

https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

Edit: I think the image was also uploaded to the incorrect (1988) edition. The change log is rather confusing because two librarians were working on it at the same time. I don't think the 1988 edition should have the same cover as the 2015 one.

[Bea]

Done.

[lethe]

Bea wrote: "Done."

Bea, did you upload the cover to the 1988 edition? (See my edited comment.)

[Bea]

I worked on the original request and a 1988 edition that had no cover. For the cover, I put the ISBN-13 into Amazon and uploaded the cover there.

[lethe]

Ah yes, I see it's not the exact same cover. Time for me to go to bed, I can't see properly anymore :-)

[Bea]

Maybe the 2015 cover was an old cover re-used? I re-checked it and still get the same cover from Amazon.

[lethe]

Bea wrote: "Maybe the 2015 cover was an old cover re-used? I re-checked it and still get the same cover from Amazon."

Yes, the old one has 'Hogarth' on the cover and the new one 'A classic festive mystery', so they have slightly modified it.

I'm off to bed!

[Janet]

Goodness, you were busy after I went to bed!

Thanks :)

[Janet]

Please let me know if you'd like me to start a new thread, but I've another query about this book.

I was looking at the reviews, and one says:

"I was disappointed in that I expected a few to have some comic elements and be a cozy Christmas read. The stories are quite varied raging from a scary night in a wax museum, an intriguing con, a western to dastardly elven plot at the North Pole. The editor introduces each writer with a rather long rundown of their other "great" stories and careers in writing, some more interesting than the stories. About 3 were good and the read just bearable."

I'm pretty certain this relates to a different book -

http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Christmas...

The book I am reading by C H B Kitchen is one continuous story, not a collection.

The one to which that review seems to refer is a collection edited by Jack Adrian.

Shown here on Goodreads...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

I hope that makes sense.

Please let me know if you'd like me to start a fresh thread about this. :)

[lethe]

I separated the two editions by Jack Adrian. Two reviews including the negative one have moved with them.

They are also still visible on the Kitchin title, but that's probably a caching issue, given the recent ratings bug.

[Janet]

Okay, thanks for letting me know. :)