The big book of Christmas mysteries
By: edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler
Series: Vintage crime/Black Lizard; Vintage Crime/Black lizard original; Vintage crime/Black Lizard; Vintage crime/Black Lizard original
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 654
ISBN-13: 9780345802989; 9780345802996
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories
Other titles: Christmas mysteries
Description: "Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories--many of which are difficult or nearly impossible to find anywhere else"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "A Vintage crime/Black lizard original"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: The adventure of the Christmas pudding  -- Agatha Christie; title: Gold, Frankincense and murder  -- Catherine Aird; title: Boxing unclever  -- Robert Barnard; title: The proof of the pudding  -- Peter Lovesey; title: The adventure of the Dauphin's doll  -- Ellery Queen; title: Morse's greatest mystery  -- Colin Dexter; title: More than flesh and blood  -- Susan Moody; title: The butler's Christmas eve  -- Mary Roberts Rinehart; title: The trinity cat  -- Ellis Peters; title: The burglar and the whatsit  -- Donald E. Westlake; title: Dancing Dan's Christmas  -- Damon Runyon; title: A visit from St. Nicholas  -- Ron Goulart; title: The thieves who couldn't help sneezing  -- Thomas Hardy; title: Rumpole and the spirit of Christmas  -- John Mortimer; title: A reversible Santa Clause  -- Meredith Nicholson; title: A scandal in winter  -- Gillian Linscott; title: The Christmas client  -- Edward D. Hoch; title: The secret in the pudding bag & Herlock Sholmes's Christmas case  -- Peter Todd; title: Christmas Eve  -- S.C. Roberts; title: The adventure of the blue carbuncle  -- Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Dead on Christmas street  -- John D. MacDonald; title: Crime's Christmas carol  -- Norvell Page; title: Serenade to a killer  -- Joseph Commings / -- The haunted crescent / -- Peter Lovesey; title: A Christmas in camp  -- Edmund Cox; title: The Christmas Bogey  -- Pat Frank; title: The killer Christian  -- Andrew Klavan; title: The ghost's touch  -- Fergus Hume; title: A wreath for Marley -- Max Allan Collins; title: The carol singers  -- Josephine Bell; title: Waxworks  -- Ethel Lina White; title: Cambric tea  -- Marjorie Bowen; title: The 74th tale /  -- Jonathan Santlofer; title: The uninnocent  -- Bradford Morrow; title: Blue Christmas  -- Peter Robinson; title: Noel, noel  -- Barry Perowne; title: Death on Christmas Eve  -- Stanley Ellin; title: The Chinese apple  -- Joseph Shearing; title: And all through the house  -- Ed McBain; title: An early Christmas  -- Doug Allyn; title: The live tree  -- John Lutz; title: Three-dot Po  -- Sara Paretsky; title: Mad dog  -- Dick Lochte; title: Sister Bessie  -- Cyril Hare; title: That's the ticket  -- Mary Higgins Clark; title: Death on the air  -- Ngaio Marsh; title: The thirteenth day of Christmas  -- Isaac Asimov /; title: The Christmas kitten  -- Ed Gorman; title: The Santa Claus club  -- Julian Symons; title: The flying stars  -- G.K. Chesterton; title: Christmas party  -- Rex Stout; title: The Raffles relics  -- E.W. Hornung; title: The price of light  -- Ellis Peters; title: A present for Santa Sahib  -- H.R.F. Keating; title: The Christmas train  -- Will Scott; title: Markheim  -- Robert Louis Stevenson; title: A chaparral Christmas gift  -- O. Henry; title: The Chopham affair  -- Edgar Wallace; title: A Christmas tragedy -- Agatha Christie.