A very short story, set at Christmas and featuring Albert Campion. An earlier version, A Word in Season, had appeared in 1955. This version appeared in Mr Campion's Lady, The Second Allingham Omnibus.
Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edmund Crispin, Georgette Heyer, John Rhode, E. C. R. Lorac, Anthony Berkeley, S. S. Van Dine, H. C. Bailey, A. A. Milne, Arthur Upfield, Freeman Wills Crofts, John Dickson Carr, Ngaio Marsh, Anthony Gilbert, Christianna Brand, J. Jefferson Farjeon, George Bellairs, Victor L. Whitechurch, E. C. Bentley & Patricia Highsmith