Big Book Of Christmas Mysteries

Have yourself a crooked little Christmas with this whodunit short story
anthology – “The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries.” 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.

There are 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. From
classic Victorian tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and
Thomas Hardy, to contemporary stories by Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain, 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.