Crime for Christmas
by Richard Dalby, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie
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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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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, fictionPeople
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England, London, 221B Baker Street, Alpha Inn, British Museum, Covent Garden, BrixtonShowing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
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Crime for Christmas
1999, Barnes & Noble Books
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Crime for Christmas
1998, Barnes & Noble Bks
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Crimes for Christmas
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Crime for Christmas
1993-11, St. Martin's Paperbacks
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