"The most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled"--Cover.
Contents:
A wreath for Marley / Max Allan Collins. 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:
The most complete collection of yuletide whodunits ever assembled.
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