Title: Merry Murder
Description: The stories in this book were selected from the anthologies *Mystery for Christmas*, *Murder for Christmas*, and *Murder Under the Mistletoe*, which were originally published by Signet, an imprint of Dutton/Signet.


Rumpole and the spirit of Christmas / John Mortimer	
Supper with Miss Shivers / Peter Lovesey	
[Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	
A matter of life and death / Georges Simenon	
I saw Mommy killing Santa Claus / George Baxt	
Dead on Christmas Street / John D. MacDonald	
The Christmas bear / Herbert Resnicow	
Mystery for Christmas / Anthony Boucher	
On Christmas Day in the morning / Margery Allingham	
Santa Claus beat / Rex Stout	
Who killed Father Christmas / Patricia Moyes	
'Twixt the cup and the lip / Julian Symons	
Auggie Wren's Christmas story / Paul Auster	
Murder at Christmas / C.M. Chan	
Father Crumlish celebrates Christmas / Alice Scanlan Reach	
The plot against Santa Claus / James Powell	
Christmas cop / Thomas Larry Adcock	
But once a year ... thank God! / Joyce Porter	
Christmas party / Martin Werber	
Kelso's Christmas / Malcolm McClintick	
The spy and the Christmas cipher / Edward D. Hoch	
The carol singers / Josephine Bell.
Subjects: carbuncles, Christmas dinners, commissionaires, Fiction, Private investigators, American Detective and mystery stories, English Detective and mystery stories, Short stories, Christmas stories, Children's fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Fiction, anthologies (multiple authors)
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