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FICTION BIG
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The
big
book
of
Christmas
mysteries
/ edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler.
Vintage Books, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION
BIG
Series
Vintage crime/Black Lizard.
ISBN:
9780345802989 (trade pbk.)
0345802985 (trade pbk.)
Alternate title:
Christmas
mysteries
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xii, 654 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"The most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled"--Cover.
Contents:
The adventure of the
Christmas
pudding / Agatha Christie -- Gold, Frankincense and murder / Catherine Aird -- Boxing unclever / Robert Barnard -- The proof of the pudding / Peter Lovesey -- The adventure of the Dauphin's doll / Ellery Queen -- Morse's greatest mystery / Colin Dexter -- More than flesh and blood / Susan Moody -- The butler's
Christmas
eve / Mary Roberts Rinehart -- The trinity cat / Ellis Peters -- The burglar and the whatsit / Donald E. Westlake -- Dancing Dan's
Christmas
/ Damon Runyon -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Ron Goulart -- The thieves who couldn't help sneezing / Thomas Hardy -- Rumpole and the spirit of
Christmas
/ John Mortimer -- A reversible Santa Clause / Meredith Nicholson -- A scandal in winter / Gillian Linscott -- The
Christmas
client / Edward D. Hoch -- The secret in the pudding bag & Herlock Sholmes's
Christmas
case / Peter Todd --
Christmas
Eve / S.C. Roberts -- The adventure of the blue carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Dead on
Christmas
street / John D. MacDonald -- Crime's
Christmas
carol / Norvell Page -- Serenade to a killer / Joseph Commings / The haunted crescent / Peter Lovesey -- A
Christmas
in camp / Edmund Cox -- The
Christmas
Bogey / Pat Frank -- The killer Christian / Andrew Klavan -- The ghost's touch / Fergus Hume -- A wreath for Marley / Max Allan Collins.
Summary:
Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories--many of which are difficult or nearly impossible to find anywhere else. From classic Victorian tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Thomas Hardy, to contemporary stories by Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain, this collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of
mysteries
.
Genre:
Christmas
mystery.
Mystery fiction.
Short stories.
Other authors:
Penzler, Otto.
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Bedford Public Library
Adult Christmas Fiction
FICTION BIG
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