Title: Crime for Christmas
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.

The trinity cat / Ellis Peters	
A happy solution / Raymund Allen	
[Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W) / Arthur Conan Doyle	
An upright woman / H.R.F. Keating	
A book for Christmas / Christopher Hallam	
A pair of muddy shoes / Lennox Robinson	
The unknown murder / H.C. Bailey	
The buoy that did not light / Edgar Wallace	
A Christmas tragedy / Agatha Christie	
The ghost's touch / Fergus Hume	
The grotto / Pamela Sewell	
The show must not go on / David G. Rowlands	
Red lily / Dick Donovan	
The black bag left on a doorstep / C.L. Pirkis	
The grave by the handpost / Thomas Hardy	
Mr Wray's cash box / Wilkie Collins	
Solution of the endgame in 'A happy solution.'
Subjects: Christmas stories, Short stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Mystery fiction, fiction, Christmas fiction, carbuncles, Christmas dinners, commissionaires, Private investigators, Crime, English Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery stories, English Christmas stories, Crime, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Christmas, fiction
Places: England, London, 221B Baker Street, Alpha Inn, British Museum, Covent Garden, Brixton
People: Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Baker Street Irregulars, Countess of Morcar, John Horner, Peterson, Henry Baker, Breckinridge, Mrs Oakshott, Catherine Cusack, James Ryder, Mrs. Oakshott