Mystery and Crime abound during the Christmas season. A sense of crime threads through everything, and the spirit of safety is almost commonplace. Something that criminals focus on. Stories in this wonderful mystery collection capture that darker criminal side of the Holidays with stories marked by crime, mystery and even some stories from World War Two. This lightish-hearted holiday book brings smiles and shocks and surprises to usher in this darker side of the Holidays. BUY NOW! Holiday Mystery Short Stories Include: Confession In The Darkness Protecting Christmas Christmas Thief Christmas, Crime, Letter Private Eye, Convention and Christmas Cheater At Dinner Perfect Christmas Salvation In The Maid Criminal, Resistance, Alliance Dark Farm Great Give Away BUY NOW!

Mystery and Crime abound during the Christmas season. A sense of crime threads through everything, and the spirit of safety is almost commonplace. Something that criminals focus on. Stories in this wonderful mystery collection capture that darker criminal side of the Holidays with stories marked by crime, mystery and even some stories from World War Two. This lightish-hearted holiday book brings smiles and shocks and surprises to usher in this darker side of the Holidays. BUY NOW! Holiday Mystery Short Stories Include: · Confession In The Darkness · Protecting Christmas · Christmas Thief · Christmas, Crime, Letter · Private Eye, Convention and Christmas · Cheater At Dinner · Perfect Christmas · Salvation In The Maid · Criminal, Resistance, Alliance · Dark Farm · Great Give Away BUY NOW!

The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories—from Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy, to Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain. • “Anyone who cares about the best mystery writing of the past century and beyond would be lucky to receive this thick volume during the holidays." —The Washington Post This collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of mysteries. They are suspenseful, funny, frightening, and poignant. Included are puzzles by Mary Higgins Clark, Isaac Asimov, and Ngaio Marsh; uncanny tales in the tradition of A Christmas Carol by Peter Lovesey and Max Allan Collins; O. Henry-like stories by Stanley Ellin and Joseph Shearing, stories by pulp icons John D. MacDonald and Damon Runyon; comic gems from Donald E. Westlake and John Mortimer; and many, many more. Almost any kind of mystery you’re in the mood for--suspense, pure detection, humor, cozy, private eye, or police procedural—can be found in these pages. FEATURING: - Unscrupulous Santas - Crimes of Christmases Past and Present - Festive felonies - Deadly puddings - Misdemeanors under the mistletoe - Christmas cases for classic characters including Sherlock Holmes, Brother Cadfael, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Ellery Queen, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Inspector Ghote, A.J. Raffles, and Nero Wolfe.

Mystery and Crime abound during the Christmas season. A sense of crime threads through everything, and the spirit of safety is almost commonplace. Something that criminals focus on. Stories in the second holiday collection capture that darker criminal side of the Holidays with stories marked by crime, mystery and even some stories from World War Two. This lightish-hearted holiday book brings smiles and shocks and surprises to usher in this darker side of the Holidays. BUY NOW! Holiday Mystery Short Stories Include: - Cheater At Dinner - Perfect Christmas - Salvation In The Maid - Criminal, Resistance, Alliance - Dark Farm - Great Give Away BUY NOW!

Mystery and Crime abound during the Christmas season. A sense of crime threads through everything, and the spirit of safety is almost commonplace. Something that criminals focus on. Stories in the first holiday collection capture that darker criminal side of the Holidays with stories marked by crime, mystery and even some stories from my Bettie English Private Eye series. This lightish-hearted holiday book brings smiles and shocks and surprises to usher in this darker side of the Holidays. BUY NOW! Holiday Mystery Short Stories Include: Confession In The Darkness Protecting Christmas Christmas Thief Christmas, Crime, Letter Private Eye, Convention and Christmas BUY NOW!

Criminally good mysteries happen during the Christmas season. A sense of crime waiting to happen runs through everything, and people get lured into a feeling of false security. Criminals take advantage. Short stories in this intoxicatingly rich, suspenseful, compelling mystery collection capture the darker, criminal side of the Holidays with stories littered with murder and crime and even some stories from wonderfully rich, vivid unsettling settings. This lightish-hearted holiday book brings smiles and shocks and surprises to usher in this darker side of the Holidays. BUY NOW! Holiday Mystery Short Stories Include: Invitation To Secrets, Lies and Deceit Christmas Obsession A Holly Way To Go Poisoning The Village Winter Contest Crime, Christmas, Closet BUY NOW!

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "Like an assortment of presents under a Christmas tree, there's something for everyone in this Yule-themed reprint anthology in the British Library Crime Classics series from Edwards." —Publishers Weekly Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside as the year draws to a close. Christmas tales of crime and detection have a similar appeal. When television becomes tiresome, and party games pall, the prospect of curling up in the warm with a good mystery is enticing—and much better for the digestion than yet another helping of plum pudding. Crime writers are just as susceptible as readers to the countless attractions of Christmas. Over the years, many distinguished practitioners of the genre have given one or more of their stories a Yuletide setting. The most memorable Christmas mysteries blend a lively storyline with an atmospheric evocation of the season. Getting the mixture right is much harder than it looks. This book introduces of readers to some of the finest Christmas detective stories of the past. Martin Edwards' selection blends festive pieces from much-loved authors with one or two stories which are likely to be unfamiliar even to diehard mystery fans. The result is a collection of crime fiction to savor, whatever the season.