Programming note: Join Mark this evening for another episode of his nightly audio adventure: Mystery in White, a "Christmas crime story" by Jefferson Farjeon. It airs right here at SteynOnline at 7pm North American Eastern - which is midnight Greenwich Mean Time. Tomorrow, Wednesday, he'll be here for our midweek Clubland Q&A taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm GMT/9pm Central European. Hope you can swing by. ~There has been a development in the Ukraine war - that is, if you trust the source: North Korean troops have been killed fighting Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk border region, the US has said. These would be the first reported casualties since it ...

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Programming note: Tomorrow, Wednesday, Mark will be hosting the last pre-Christmas edition of our Clubland Q&A taking questions from Steyn Clubbers live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern - that's 8pm Greenwich Mean Time/9pm Central European. ~Thank you for all your kind comments on this latest Tale for Our Time. Peter Jones, a First Weekend Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: I can't opine as eloquently as my fellow members, however, may I tell you how much I enjoy Tales for Our Time and perhaps like the anticipation of Christmas mornings past, I can't wait for the next episode! Merry Christmas! Thank you, Peter - and Merry Christmas back atcha. Here we go with Episode Nineteen of Jefferson Farjeon's novel of ...

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Welcome back to Mark's audio serialisation of Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story" Mystery in White. In tonight's episode, an adventure that began on a snowbound train at Christmas Eve 1937 finds itself, like so much else, caught in the long shadows of the Great War:

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Welcome to tonight's episode of Mystery in White - a "Christmas crime story" by Jefferson Farjeon set in a warm and cosy English country house where new refugees from the blizzard outside come upon the midnight not so clear and distract everyone but an ailing chorus-girl:

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Episode Sixteen of our Christmas caper by Jefferson Farjeon, Mystery in White - a novel published in 1937 which starts in a snowbound train on December 24th and follows its protagonists out into a strange and chilling world...

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In tonight's episode of Mystery in White, Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story" of 1937, David ventures out of the house in pursuit of a murderer:

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Episode Fourteen of Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story", Mystery in White, in which a party of passengers escaping their snowbound train on Christmas Eve seek refuge in an English country house...

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The thirteenth episode of Mark's current Tale for Our Time: Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon...

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In episode eleven of Mystery in White, Mr Maltby explains to certain of the party what's going on...

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Welcome to the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time. This month's yarn was published eighty-seven years ago, and is revived as the first of this season's Christmas capers: Mystery in White, by Jefferson Farjeon. Episode Ten.

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Our latest Tale for Our Time charges on: Mystery in White, Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story" of 1937. Episode Nine.

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In episode eight of Mystery in White, Lydia is determined to jolly a snowbound and not terribly compatible house party into an appropriately festive Christmas...

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It's time for Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: Mystery in White is Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story" of 1937, and the first of this season's Yuletide capers at SteynOnline.

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Welcome to Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - Murder in White, Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story" and the first of this season's Yuletide capers.

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Welcome to Part Five of the first of this season's Christmas capers: Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon, about the adventures of half-a-dozen railway passengers abandoning a snowbound train on Christmas Eve...

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Here we go with Part Four of our latest audio diversion, and the first of this year's Christmas capers. Our "Christmas crime story", as the publishers bill it, is Mystery in White - a Jefferson Farjeon thriller from the England of 1937...

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Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, the first of this season's Christmas capers, written by Jefferson Farjeon and published in 1937. You can enjoy Mystery in White episode by episode, night by night, twenty minutes before you lower your lamp. Or, alternatively, do feel free to binge-listen:

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Welcome to Part Two of Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and the first in this season's Christmas capers.

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Welcome to the sixty-seventh audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and the first of this year's Yuletide capers - Mystery in White, a "Christmas crime story" from 1937 by Jefferson Farjeon, scion of an eminent family, as Mark notes in his introduction, that has given us, among other delights, the definitive Rip van Winkle, a ditty about the Royal Family, and a global pop hit. Part One.

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