Crime for Christmas
by Richard Dalby
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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.
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Crime for Christmas
1999, Barnes & Noble Books
Hardcover
in English
- printing (2)
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Crime for Christmas
1998, Barnes & Noble Bks
in English
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Crimes for Christmas
1998, Barnes & Noble Books
Hardcover
in English
- printing (1)
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Crime for Christmas
1993-11, St. Martin's Paperbacks
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- St. Martin's Paperbacks edition (1)
0312951485 9780312951481
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Crime for Christmas
1992-12, St. Martin's Press
Hardcover
in English
- 1st U.S. ed. (1)
0312081707 9780312081706
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Crime for Christmas
October 17, 1991, Michael O'Mara Books
Hardcover
in English
- First edition
185479034X 9781854790347
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"Sixteen tales of murder and mistletoe"--Cover.
Published by arrangement with Michael O'Mara Books Limited.
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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 / 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.'
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