title: The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie
author:  Earl F. Bargainnier 
description: Earl F. Bargainnier was Fuller E. Callaway Professor of English Language and Literature at Wesleyan College. A former president of the Popular Culture Association, he was the author of more than sixty articles and edited Ten Women of Mystery and Twelve Englishmen of Mystery and co-edited Cops and Constables. Professor Bargainnier died January 3, 1987.
zlib_text: **TIED TO**
  
  **MURDER**
  
  A totally gripping British crime mystery
  
  **BRIAN BATTISON**
  
  _Detective Jim Ashworth Book 1_
  
  **Originally published as**
  
  _**The Christmas Bow Murder**_
  
  ![](Images/image00161.jpeg)
  
  Revised edition 2021
  
  Joffe Books, London
  
  [_www.joffebooks.com_](http://www.joffebooks.com/)
  
  First published in Great Britain in 1994
  
  as _The Christmas Bow Murder_
  
  © Brian Battison 1994, 2021
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organisations,
  places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are
  used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events
  or locales is entirely coincidental. The spelling used is British English
  except where fidelity to the author’s rendering of accent or dialect
  supersedes this. The right of Brian Battison to be identified as author of
  this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and
  Patents Act 1988.
  
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