num_pages: 256
description: Christmas shopping isn't the only thing that's murder this year! It's homicide for the holidays as Signet delivers this delightful mystery anthology. So let slay bells ring and cyanide-spiked eggnog flow on this nasty Noel--and what is that strange ticking sound coming from that beautifully wrapped gift? Authors include Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Georges Simenon, and nine others. Original.Winter's tale / Ann Cleeves --To wake the dead / John Dickson Carr --Theft of Santa's beard / Edward D. Hoch --Believing in Santa / Ron Goulart --Case is altered / Margery Allingham --Maigret's Christmas / Georges Simenon --Appalachian blackmail / Jacqueline Vivelo --Grist for the mills of Christmas / James Powell --Inspector Tierce and the Christmas visits / Jeffry Scott --Pass the parcel / Peter Lovesey --Never two without three; or, a Christmas tragedy / Agatha Christie --Ghost of Christmas past / Robert Richardson.Ellery Queen's mystery magazineAlfred Hitchcock's mystery magazineedited by Cynthia Manson.
language: English
title: Christmas crimes: Stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazine
titlecomplete: Christmas crimes: Stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazine
ratings_count: 25
publisher: Signet