An Old China Christmas Murder Mystery with DCI John Creighton – Murder on the Shanghai Express (1929)

Last year (2022) the South China Morning Post weekend magazine published my short story – Murder on the Shanghai Express (click here) – in their Christmas issue. Shanghai Municipal Police Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) John Creighton is eager to get home from Peking having delivered a prisoner. He takes the Christmas Eve Shanghai Express home only to find himself trapped in a snowdrift and with a murdered man in the First Class Observation Car….

And this year (on December 17th to be precise) DCI Creighton is back in the pages of the Post magazine Christmas edition. It’s a year later, 1930, and all John Creighton wants is to get home in the Christmas Eve snow to his log fire and family dinner. But a chance encounter with an old colleague on the way sees him involved in another Christmas mystery…