| Description |
xii, 654 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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"--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Adventure of the Christmas pudding / Agatha Christie -- Gold, Frankincense and murder / Catherine Aird -- Boxing unclever / Robert Barnard -- Proof of the pudding / Peter Lovesey -- Adventure of the Dauphin's doll / Ellery Queen -- Morse's greatest mystery / Colin Dexter -- More than flesh and blood / Susan Moody -- Butler's Christmas eve / Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Trinity cat / Ellis Peters -- Burglar and the whatsit / Donald E. Westlake -- Dancing Dan's Christmas / Damon Runyon -- Visit from St. Nicholas / Ron Goulart -- Thieves who couldn't help sneezing / Thomas Hardy -- Rumpole and the spirit of Christmas / John Mortimer -- A reversible Santa Clause / Meredith Nicholson -- Scandal in winter / Gillian Linscott -- Christmas client / Edward D. Hoch -- Secret in the pudding bag & Herlock Sholmes's Christmas case / Peter Todd -- Christmas Eve / S.C. Roberts -- 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 / Haunted crescent / Peter Lovesey -- Christmas in camp / Edmund Cox -- Christmas Bogey / Pat Frank -- Killer Christian / Andrew Klavan -- Ghost's touch / Fergus Hume -- Wreath for Marley / Max Allan Collins. |
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Carol singers / Josephine Bell -- Waxworks / Ethel Lina White -- Cambric tea / Marjorie Bowen -- 74th tale / Jonathan Santlofer -- Uninnocent / Bradford Morrow -- Blue Christmas / Peter Robinson -- Noel, noel / Barry Perowne -- Death on Christmas Eve / Stanley Ellin -- Chinese apple / Joseph Shearing -- And all through the house / Ed McBain -- Early Christmas / Doug Allyn -- Live tree / John Lutz -- Three-dot Po / Sara Paretsky -- Mad dog / Dick Lochte -- Sister Bessie / Cyril Hare -- That's the ticket / Mary Higgins Clark -- Death on the air / Ngaio Marsh -- Thirteenth day of Christmas / Isaac Asimov / Christmas kitten / Ed Gorman -- Santa Claus club / Julian Symons -- Flying stars / G.K. Chesterton -- Christmas party / Rex Stout -- Raffles relics / E.W. Hornung -- Price of light / Ellis Peters -- Present for Santa Sahib / H.R.F. Keating -- Christmas train / Will Scott -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Chaparral Christmas gift / O. Henry -- Chopham affair / Edgar Wallace -- Christmas tragedy / Agatha Christie. |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Christmas stories.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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| Added Author |
Penzler, Otto, editor of compilation.
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| ISBN |
9780345802989 trade pbk. |
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0345802985 trade pbk. |
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9780345802996 (ebook) |
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