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The big book of Christmas mysteries / edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler.

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Vintage Books, c2013.

Vintage crime/Black Lizard.

9780345802989 (trade pbk.)

0345802985 (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

Christmas mysteries

xii, 654 p. ; 23 cm.

"The most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled"--Cover.

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.

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.

Christmas mystery.

Mystery fiction.

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