Crime for Christmas
By: edited by Richard Dalby ; forward by Peter Cushing
Edition: printing (2)
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780760711378
Copyright date: 1991
Description: Though Christmas is a time of peace and joy, there can be a dark side to holiday cheer -- murder and mayhem may lurk within the merriment. This tempting collection serves up Christmas crime stories from some of the best mystery writers of the past 150 years: Agatha Christie, Ellis Peters, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.C. Bailey, and Thomas Hardy.
Notes: "Sixteen tales of murder and mistletoe"--Cover.

Published by arrangement with Michael O'Mara Books Limited.
Table of contents: title: The trinity cat / Ellis Peters; title: A happy solution / Raymund Allen; title: The adventure of the blue carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle; title: An upright woman / H.R.F. Keating; title: A book for Christmas / Christopher Hallam; title: A pair of muddy shoes / Lennox Robinson; title: The unknown murder / H.C. Bailey; title: The buoy that did not light / Edgar Wallace; title: A Christmas tragedy / Agatha Christie; title: The ghost's touch / Fergus Hume; title: The grotto / Pamela Sewell; title: The show must not go on / David G. Rowlands; title: Red lily / Dick Donovan; title: The black bag left on a doorstep / C.L. Pirkis; title: The grave by the handpost / Thomas Hardy; title: Mr Wray's cash box / Wilkie Collins; title: Solution of the endgame in 'A happy solution.'