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Nell’Inghilterra degli anni Trenta, nella sua antica e nobile magione di campagna, Adrian Gray riunisce i suoi sei figli. Ogni anno, in occasione del periodo natalizio, Adrian Gray e i suoi sei figli si ritrovano nella sua magione di gentiluomo di campagna. Nessuno dei figli sembra intrattenere buoni rapporti con il padre e tutti covano segretamente qualche motivo per volerne la morte. Così la mattina di Natale, quando al tavolo della colazione la sedia del padre resta vuota, nessuno di loro appare dispiaciuto. Un capolavoro poliziesco dell’età d’oro del giallo inglese.

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. Each December, Adrian Gray invites his extended family to stay at his lonely house, King's 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.

In the summer of 1839, 26-year-old Louisa Anne Meredith, in the company of her husband, Charles Meredith, sailed from England to the British colony of New South Wales, in what was then New Holland. Four years later, she published a detailed account of the years since she had left England. A fascinating window into the past, Louisa's impressions and experiences cover the four-month ocean voyage; life within the fledgling city of Sydney; travels across the Blue Mountains to Bathurst; and eventual settlement at Homebush in Sydney's west.