The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favourite vacation crime tales—from Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy, to Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain. • “Anyone who cares about the most effective thriller writing of the previous century and past could be fortunate to obtain this thick quantity through the holidays.” —The Washington Post

This assortment touches on all elements of the vacation season, and all sorts of mysteries. They are suspenseful, humorous, scary, and poignant.
Included are puzzles by Mary Higgins Clark, Isaac Asimov, and Ngaio Marsh; uncanny tales within the custom of A Christmas Carol by Peter Lovesey and Max Allan Collins; O. Henry-like tales by Stanley Ellin and Joseph Shearing, tales by pulp icons John D. MacDonald and Damon Runyon; comedian gems from Donald E. Westlake and John Mortimer; and lots of, many extra. Almost any type of thriller you’re within the temper for–suspense, pure detection, humor, cozy, non-public eye, or police procedural—may be present in these pages.
 
FEATURING:
–        Unscrupulous Santas
–        Crimes of Christmases Past and Present
–        Festive felonies
–        Deadly puddings
–        Misdemeanors beneath the mistletoe
–        Christmas instances for traditional characters together with Sherlock Holmes, Brother Cadfael, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Ellery Queen, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Inspector Ghote, A.J. Raffles, and Nero Wolfe.