Mystery in White

A Christmas Crime Story

Pages: 256
Published: 1938
Language: English

On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been lit and the table laid for tea – but no one is at home. Trapped together for Christmas, the passengers are seeking to unravel the secrets of the empty house when a murderer strikes in their midst.

Prose complexity: 1/10

Mysterious

Locked Room Multiple POVs

Cozy Mystery Crime Mystery

J. Jefferson Farjeon

The prolific UK author and playwright Joseph Jefferson Farjeon was born into a family of writers (Wikipedia), father Benjamin, sister Eleanor, brothers Herbert and composer Harry. Under his own name and pen names such as Anthony Swift, he wrote over eighty novels, mainly mystery and detective novels (GADetection, GoodReads, IMDB).