Star over Bethlehem and Other Stories

Collins, 1965, First Edition

The stories and poems in thislittle book celebrate Christmas. In them, the most famous living writer of detective stories is not concerned with the darker aspects of human behaviour, but with the joys of creation and its riddles. Some of her stories are set during the past 2000 years, other belong to the present and the near future; each one leaves the impress of its wisdom, pathos or humour...