Murder Takes a Holiday

by Various

  Appleby nodded soberly.

  ‘Perfectly true,’ he said. ‘But let us be thankful that one of Her Majesty’s judges isn’t burdened with the job of giving somebody a bad fifteen years.’

  Credits

  ‘The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question’ by Dorothy L. Sayers, from Lord Peter Views the Body., Victor Gollancz, 1928, reprinted by permission of David Higham Ltd

  ‘The Mystery of Horne’s Copse’ by Anthony Berkeley, reprinted by permission of The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Anthony Berkeley

  ‘Invisible Hands’ by John Dickson Carr, from The Men Who Explained Miracles, Hamish Hamilton, 1964, reprinted by permission of David Higham Ltd

  ‘Chapter and Verse’ by Ngaio Marsh, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd © 1989, Ngaio Marsh

  ‘A Case in Camera’ by Edmund Crispin reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop (www.petersfraserdunlop.com) on behalf of Rights Limited

  ‘The Fever Tree’ by Ruth Rendell from the collection The Fever Tree and Other Stories © Kingsmarkham Enterprises Ltd, 1982, is reprinted with permission from Penguin Random House

  ‘Parking Space’ by Simon Brett reprinted by permission of the Author

  ‘Death in the Sun’ by Michael Innes reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop (www.petersfraserdunlop.com) on behalf of the Estate of Michael Innes

  While every effort has been made to contact copyright-holders of each story, the editor and publishers would be grateful for information where they have been unable to trace them, and would be glad to make amendments in further editions.