num_pages: 221
description: The author of the critically acclaimed Sophie's World presents a Christmas adventure about a boy who discovers a magical Advent calendar in the corner of a dusty bookstore that takes him on an amazing holiday journey. 75,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Christmas Mystery
titlecomplete: The Christmas Mystery
characters: Joakim, Elisabet Hansen
genres: Religion, Philosophy, Childrens, Contemporary, Novels, Young Adult, Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction, Christmas
ratings_count: 6994
places: Jerusalem, Tarsus, Aquileia, Paderborn, Hameln, Damascus, Constantinople, Halden, Myra, Nazareth, Chalcedon, Bethlehem, Copenhagen, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Switzerland, Ragusa, Basel, Kolding, Thessaloniki, Tiberias, Mainz, Martigny, Germany, Trieste, Göteborg, Lund, Shkodër, Halmstad, Sweden, Worms, Norway, Salona, Flensburg, Kungälv, Jericho, Capernaum, Antioch, Hamburg, Venice, Korsør, Padua, Veneto
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux