Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop
Subtitle: 'Tis the Season to Be Deadly
By: edited by Otto Penzler
Edition: 1st Vanguard Press ed.
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781593156176
Subjects: Mysterious Bookshop; Fiction
Description: Features over fifteen mystery short stories set during Christmas, with some of the action taking place at the editor's real-life Mysterious Bookshop in New York City.
Table of contents: title: Give till it hurts  -- Donald E. Westlake; title: Schemes and variations  -- George Baxt; title: The theft of the rusty bookmark  -- Edward D. Hoch; title: Murder for dummies  -- Ron Goulart; title: As dark as Christmas gets  -- Lawrence Block; title: The holiday fairy  -- Jeremiah Healy; title: I saw Mommy killing Santa Claus  -- Ed McBain; title: The grift of the Magi  -- S.J. Rozan; title: My object all sublime  -- Anne Perry; title: Christmas spirit  -- Michael Malone; title: The lesson of the season  -- Thomas H. Cook; title: Yule be sorry  -- Lisa Michelle Atkinson; title: The long winter's nap  -- Rupert Holmes; title: Cold reading  -- Charles Ardai; title: The killer Christian  -- Andrew Klavan; title: The 74th tale  -- Jonathan Santlofer; title: What's in a name? -- Mary Higgins Clark.